• Harry Vennik (5/5) Jan 22 2009 Hi,
• Jarrett Billingsley (5/8) Jan 22 2009 As far as most people can tell, it's an artifact from very early on in
• Frank Benoit (2/6) Jan 22 2009 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=177

Harry Vennik <htvennik zonnet.nl> writes:

Hi,


http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/class.html

In the grammar specification I read that a base class or interface name can be
prepended a protection attribute. But I don't find a word about the semantics
thereof... Can anyone tell (and update the docs)?


Regards,

Harry

Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Harry Vennik <htvennik zonnet.nl> wrote:
 Hi,


 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/class.html

 In the grammar specification I read that a base class or interface name can be
prepended a protection attribute. But I don't find a word about the semantics
thereof... Can anyone tell (and update the docs)?

As far as most people can tell, it's an artifact from very early on in
D's development.  It was probably originally supposed to have MI but
that was dropped.  The compiler accepts public/private/protected on
the base class but it's useless as it breaks things.

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley schrieb:
 As far as most people can tell, it's an artifact from very early on in
 D's development.  It was probably originally supposed to have MI but
 that was dropped.  The compiler accepts public/private/protected on
 the base class but it's useless as it breaks things.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=177