D-Programming-Language/dmd — pull request #1478 by AndrejMitrovic (2013-01-13 17:58:36+00:00)
Title: Issue 7236 - Protected class member should be accessible in subclass in another file

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7236

I'm somewhat on the edge of this one, whether it should be allowed or not. I'd love to hear some input.