On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:02:20 +0200, deadalnix <deadal...@gmail.com> wrote:
Now, there are a number of people very unhappy about this state of
affairs and
want private to hide symbols as well (personally, I think that the fact
that
it makes private aliases effectively useless is reason enough to
seriously
reconsider the current behavior), but I don't know if there's any real
chance
of convincing Walter or not.
This would be a huge mistake. For instance, private method are sometime
meant to be overridden in subclasses, which is impossible if symbol is
inaccessible.
NVI for instance would be impossible in such a situation.
NVI is perfectly possible with protected.
