On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 14:34:50 UTC, eles wrote:
Just think about Andrey as being such C++ programmer that gave
D a try and ran away. Why? Because it was puzzled to see that,
despit being "private", the attribute is "public" (well, to
some degree).
His first thought was that D should not be used into production
environment.
OK? Andrey is one C++ programmer that you lose, you cannot
convert him to D. Does D afford that?
That is completely backward. D and C++ have very different needs
in terms of visibility of symbols, especially if you think about
the fact that namespace introduction in C++ come after visibility
qualifiers. D have a module system that make the requirement very
different.
Every time you change something people are used too, they get
scared. Someone scared by a change they don't understand will not
use D anyway. Given another behavior of private more C++
compliant, it is very likely that Andrey would have find
something else to be scared of.
