On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 01:39:46 UTC, unprotected-entity
wrote:
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 21:35:04 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 11/2/2018 5:44 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
When one encounters a new idea that's unfamiliar sometimes
it's easy to think that because it's unfamiliar it must be
unsound. That can be a mistake. It might be better to
suspend judgement for a while and keep an open mind.
So true. My ideas on how to write code have changed
dramatically over the years, and continue to change.
I hear the advantages of the way D does it.
But nobody wants to hear about the disadvantages.
We heard you, we just disagree it's a disadvantage.
What harm can come, from an optional tool, that enables
enforceable encapsulation of a type, within a module (from code
also in the module, but outside that type)?
Can someone please answer that?
The harm is complexity.
But hey, if you want to write such a tool go right ahead.
And yet again, I remind people that this is not a request for
change. This is a discussion about what benefit such a tool can
bring.
In my opinion, no benefit at all.