On 12/22/12 3:21 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
It's that way in C++ mainly so that it doesn't make the already complex overloading system even more so. And in 25 years of working with C++, I've never seen this make anyone's list of horrible things about C++.
I think this is a fallacious argument because it concludes that apples should be peeled because oranges should. The impossibility to define a symbol really private in D will lead to awkward idioms like prefixing every private symbol with _p_ or something.
Andrei
