On Thursday, June 06, 2013 08:09:38 Max Samukha wrote: > On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 02:36:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > But I believe that package level access only works on the same > > level, so you > > couldn't have separate modules for compressing and > > decompressing as was being > > suggested. > > 'package' should be fixed so that 'package' declarations are > accessible within nested packages.
Well, it _is_ debatable as to whether that's desirable or not. With the current behavior, you can have a package which shares stuff within itself but not with its sub-packages, but there's no way to share with the sub-packages without making the symbols public; whereas if sub-packages have access to their parent packages' package functions, then packages _can_ share with their sub-packages, but they can't restrict anything to just the package. Both ways have their pros and cons. I don't know which is ultimately better. - Jonathan M Davis
