"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.wa16bibneav7ka@localhost.localdomain... > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:06:40 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu > <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > >> Insert obligatory link: http://drdobbs.com/184401197 >> >> Very insightful article. > > Interesting point to make about D, however. It's really *difficult* to > make related non-member non-friend functions, since all functions inside > the same module as a type are friends.
Geez, I *still* keep forgetting about that. And I'm not sure I've ever really found it particularly useful. I'd be happy to see that go away in D3. Acually, I'd argue in favor of changing "private" to "module" (much like how we have the "package" access specifier) and then adding a more traditional private. I doubt any of this will ever actually happen. But, oh well, one can dream.
