• d-bugmail puremagic.com (34/34) Mar 22 2020 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20694

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20694

          Issue ID: 20694
           Summary: "did you mean <a protected/private member>"
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: destructionator gmail.com

---
module a1;
class A {
        protected void foo();
}
---

and

---
import a1;

void main() {
        auto a = new A;
        a.foo();
}
---

a2.d(5): Error: no property foo for type a1.A, did you mean a1.A.foo?


It works if public of course, but if protected or private it gives a silly
error.

on private, it should probably not suggest anything; private members are
supposed to be invisible. But the protected case should probably explicitly
call out that it is protected and thus inaccessible.

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