On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Michael Matz <m...@suse.de> wrote:
> Me neither, from that perspective it's okay. It's merely that I doubt the
> value of any syntactic privatization like it's implemented in C++, you can
> #define it away, hence the compiler can't make use of that information for
> code generation, and the cognitive value for the developer ("hey I
> shouldn't look at this member from outside") is dubious, as that probably
> is a general rule, no direct data member access from non-members (although
> I have problems with that too).
If we are making engineering decisions on the basis of people being able to say
#define private public, well, we are so far off into the weeds as to not be
funny.
ODR:
--each definition of D shall consist of the same sequence of tokens;
Just because you see no value in private, doesn't mean others don't. Consider
this, It would not be in the language if everyone shared your view.
