Restrict "private" for items in namespaces to mean "private to the namespace declaration group" #43

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Idea 6987069: Restrict "private" for items in namespaces to mean "private to the namespace declaration group" #43

Status : planned
Submitted by Don Syme on 1/20/2015 12:00:00 AM
4 votes

For F# 2.x-4.0, as discussed in thie GitHub thread (dotnet/fsharp#43 (comment)), a "private" module or type in a namespace is actually accessible from anywhere in that assembly contributing to the same namespace.
The suggestion is to emit a warning when such an item is accessed from outside the immediate namespace declaration group in which it is declared. For example, we would give a warning if it is accessed from another file in the same namespace in the same assembly.

Response

** by fslang-admin on 7/17/2015 12:00:00 AM **

This problem should be fixed via a warning.
This is approved for inclusion in a future release of the F# language subject to an implementation and detailed design.
Don Syme, F# Language and Core Library Evolution.
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