• Sergey <smsmfk gmail.com> Oct 03 2010
• "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Oct 04 2010
• "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Oct 04 2010

Sergey <smsmfk gmail.com> writes:

Hi, I'm a newcomer to D. Several days ago I've stumbled upon a very  
strange thing about D. As I understand, module members, such as classes,  
structs, functions and variables can be marked with an accessibility  
attribute, such as private, public, package or export. Say, there's a  
module named "test.d":

module test;

private int x1;
public int x2;

private void fnc1()
{
}
public void fnc2()
{
}

private class C1 {}
public class C2 {}

With a great surprise, I have discovered that from another module it is  
still possible to access both x1 and C1, though fnc1() is inaccessible !
Can anyone explain me what does it mean ?
Thanks in advance.

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:50:26 -0400, Sergey <smsmfk gmail.com> wrote:

 Hi, I'm a newcomer to D. Several days ago I've stumbled upon a very  
 strange thing about D. As I understand, module members, such as classes,  
 structs, functions and variables can be marked with an accessibility  
 attribute, such as private, public, package or export. Say, there's a  
 module named "test.d":

 module test;

 private int x1;
 public int x2;

 private void fnc1()
 {
 }
 public void fnc2()
 {
 }

 private class C1 {}
 public class C2 {}

 With a great surprise, I have discovered that from another module it is  
 still possible to access both x1 and C1, though fnc1() is inaccessible !
 Can anyone explain me what does it mean ?
 Thanks in advance.


This has been reported several times, it looks to me like it should be  
fixed.

As far as module data members, static works in C/C++, try using it here (a  
static member has a local name, so it cannot be used outside the file).

I don't think there's any application for static classes, though.

But private seems like a much better term for this type of thing, I think  
it should be supported at a module level across the board.

Related bugs:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1161
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1441
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2225
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2775
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2830

Couldn't find any more, did a search for "private"

Most likely others have encountered the issue and found one of the related  
bugs above, then didn't bother to report another one.

-Steve

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:05:49 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy yahoo.com> wrote:

 This has been reported several times, it looks to me like it should be  
 fixed.


What I meant was, someone should fix it, not that it's already fixed :)

-Steve