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Forwarding can create visible private exports from a module #4065
This is correct per spec, but not desirable from a design perspective. There should be no way to access private member names through the module system, even if they weren't originally declared as private. (Note that accessing $--value through a module namespace currently fails in Dart Sass. As I read the spec this "should" be allowed, but I think prohibiting it is desirable.)
Ideally, we would just prohibit a @forward prefix beginning with - or _. However, they may be useful for migration purposes—@import had no notion of privacy, and some users wrote libraries whose prefixes began with -- in practice, so it's desirable to preserve those in import-only files for backwards-compatibility. As such, I think the plan here should be four-stage:
Deprecate accessing members beginning with - through @use, @forward, or sass:meta functions (meta.module-* should probably just produce a deprecation when used on a module that contains any of these, since we can't easily check when these specific variables are accessed.)
Remove these from the module entirely as special case of the semantics of @use and @forward. This ensures they'll never be visible through the module system, without making them inaccessible to @import.
Once we're getting close to removing @import for good, deprecate @forward prefixes that begin with -.
Finally, at the same time as the final @import removal, forbid @forward prefixes that begin with - and remove the special-casing from @use and @forward.
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