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by Tractor8626 339 days ago
What I meant are "avoid copy paste at all cost" and "I'm center of the world. What I want is the only thing that matters"-thinking.

About access restrictions. We have two nice examples here

1. Stdio devs can't freely make modifications because someone's code depends on private implementation details

2. And yours example. You tried to do wrong thing and those access restriction made you suffer and do the right thing.

Works as intended I'd say.