On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 06:26:13 UTC, Radu wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 06:14:49 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 06:01:43 UTC, ketmar wrote:
ah, yes, sorry: i completely forgot that C++ was invented
after c# and java. mea maxima culpa!
My point was, that the 2 most widely used and popular
languages on the plant, C# and Java, decided NOT to make
private, something mean else, like D has done.
So the 3 most used languages got it wrong??
Yes, they got it wrong! Because they don't have modules, and
because Java & C# are OOP bondage-everything-is-a-class, and
preach that the world spins on classes.
C++ tried to fix it with 'friend', and it shows the hack that
it is.
Don't know why you think D should be just another Java or C#?
Well I don't really. But one of the great things about D, is that
a C++/C#/Java programmers can jump right in.
But when the same syntax suddenly means something really
different, I tend to think that's not a good design decision.
And that's really the main point of my argument.
As I said, this was a real gotcha for me.
I only realised after I accidently tried to modify a private
member directly, and discovered I did actually modify it!
Maybe, a different modifier that made it private to the module
would have been a better design decision.
