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alert, inform, notify, announce ..... that's what HN does. How about refocusing your attention on the actual matter at hand. That is, Linus calling out Kees for being actively mali…

I think the HN title was completely appropriate. Linus was not jusy yelling - (i.e.): "You seem to have actively maliciously modified your tree completely." - Linus Torvalds. Linus…

openD (a fork of the D programming language) makes class private members inside a module a reality for programmers. In the meantime, the D programming lanaguage forum bans any furt…

Members of the D programming language spend 14 weeks searching for the elusive 'self'. Did they all find it though? And what about the 'non-self'? Did they go looking for that as w…

This D programming blog argues that C++ friend breaks encapsulation. I reject that argument, and say that C++ friend puts a door in the wall, and a guard at that door, and therefor…

..and in the context of a module.. not even used as a type at all.

Would have been much better in my opinion, if D had maintained a C like struct (not a C++ like struct), and a C++ like class. That would have solved the problem you identified, whi…

Yes, we can agree that D is not like C++ - not at all. The reason C++ programmers are usually disappointed, is because D gets marketed as such (it's the bait you need to get them t…

D is not at all like C++. D is D. You only need to compare how C++ and D treat a class type, and you know straight away they are miles apart (I prefer C++ in this regard). D has a …

.. you forgot to mention also, that (in the context of a D module) D stops treating a user-defined class-type as real type. Additionally, a D class is a reference type. Whereas in …

"That said, D definitely has some advantages over C++, like more powerful metaprogramming, no need for headers, no uninitialized values and more. But unfortunately, these upsides a…