On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 21:05:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Though if someone expects to be able to just jump into any
language and use it without reading up on how it works, they're
just shooting themselves in the foot. And surprisingly often,
that seems to be how many folks operate.
And that comment is a little unfair don't you think?
The best clarification I can find, regarding how D treat's
private, is from this tiny little sentence (from which, I assume,
the programmer is now meant to understand it's full implications):
"Symbols with private visibility can only be accessed from within
the same module"
https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#visibility_attributes
