Access Control Syntax

I’m still tinkering on a scripting language for my hobby fantasy console project. I’m ashamed to admit this, but up to this point, the language had absolutely no notion of modules. Literally every source file is dumped into one big global namespace and compiled together. I always planned to have some sort of module system. I just hadn’t figured it out yet because I had other, harder language design problems to solve. I assumed that the module system mostly didn’t interact with other language features, so I could kick it down the road for now. That was true until it wasn’t. I’ve been beating my head against the wall around generics for.. oh God I just checked the Git history and it’s three years now. I still don’t have that pinned down. Parametric types are hard. Anyway, one of the approaches I’m exploring does get tangled up in modules and scoping so now I have to figure modules out. This post is about one little syntax design question I ran into: how do you distinguish public and p ... Read full article.