Last week, inspired by another discussion in these forums about D's private-to-the-module form of encapsulation, I spent a few hours putting a new article together for the blog. Ali, Joakim, Nicholas helped me get it in shape.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/06/lost-in-translation-encapsulation/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9up2yo/lost_in_translation_encapsulation_in_d/

On 11/6/18 8:14 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Last week, inspired by another discussion in these forums about D's private-to-the-module form of encapsulation, I spent a few hours putting a new article together for the blog. Ali, Joakim, Nicholas helped me get it in shape.
> 
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/06/lost-in-translation-encapsulation/
> 
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9up2yo/lost_in_translation_encapsulation_in_d/ 

As usual, an excellent bit of writing containing things I wasn't aware of. Thanks!

On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 15:14:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Last week, inspired by another discussion in these forums about D's private-to-the-module form of encapsulation, I spent a few hours putting a new article together for the blog. Ali, Joakim, Nicholas helped me get it in shape.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/06/lost-in-translation-encapsulation/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9up2yo/lost_in_translation_encapsulation_in_d/

Nicely done, think this could do well on proggit/HN/lobste.rs.

On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 15:14:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Last week, inspired by another discussion in these forums about D's private-to-the-module form of encapsulation, I spent a few hours putting a new article together for the blog. Ali, Joakim, Nicholas helped me get it in shape.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/06/lost-in-translation-encapsulation/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9up2yo/lost_in_translation_encapsulation_in_d/

You just describe how package access attribute works better then the spec itself!
Good job.

-Alex

On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 15:14:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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I noticed that the `export` visibility attribute is curiously not mentioned anywhere in the article. I suppose it is not relevant to the encapsulation story, but it is weird to see it in the spec (https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#visibility_attributes) among public, private etc. but not the article.