On 7/11/25 11:36 PM, Bienlein wrote: > Unhappily class MessageBox is private and therefore cannot be reused.
Ah! :) That's one more data point against 'private', that little feature that helps with nothing. I don't know what language invented it but I wouldn't be surprised if it came to D from C++.
The only thing 'private' achieves is this: You don't want your users to be disappointed when they go out of their way to use features that they are advised not to use, and those features behave differently in the future. Really? That never happens. Well, if it indeed happened ever, the user went out of their way to be surprised, didn't they?
Meanwhile, engineers like you suffer because of 'private'. I pick engineering over 'private' any day.
Ali
