On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 at 01:15:09 UTC, thebluepandabear
wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 February 2023 at 15:34:17 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 February 2023 at 10:16:47 UTC, ProtectAndHide
wrote:
In any case, there is nothing 'picky' about wanting to be
able to explicately 'declare' a member of my class type as
being private. That to me, is what a programmer should expect
to be able to do in a language that says it supports OOP.
What you are saying is that you want an implementation of a
particular language that calls itself an OOP language. [There
is a lot of controversy about the definition of
OOP](https://wiki.c2.com/?NobodyAgreesOnWhatOoIs). I do not
think the explicit ability to declare a member of a class
private in a particular way has anything to do with it. You
are certainly entitled to your opinion, but it doesn't help to
say D is not an OOP language because you don't like some of
the design decisions.
D is still an OOP language, as long as it has classes,
inheritance, and polymorphism, though it's certainly not a good
one if any class can acccess private members from the module,
that's just horrid.
I think what you could say is that D lacks _encapsulation_ which
is also an OOP concept. So D is partially OOP but not fully OOP
due to there being no encapsulation in the language.
