On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 20:02:40 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
If you want an opaque struct, you need to return it by pointer.
What do you mean? Like this?
Hidden* foo() { return new Hidden();}
?
Otherwise, the user must be able to know what type it is
(otherwise, how would he use it?)
I just fear that by using internal, public, functions, the user
might get access to a private type. I guess the D answer to that
is to make foo private also. That makes sense.
I now realize that I implicitly considered 'private' to be
transitive (or viral). That is that:
Hidden foo() { return Hidden();}
as foo is returning a value from a private type, it should be
considered private also. By the compiler, I mean.
