[swift-evolution] access control proposal

[Ilya]

I think that "private" as it is already causes more confusion than "local".
Another alternative I can think of is "scoped" or some variant of that. It
would be nice to have a good unambiguous name for it. Right now I just hope
that we can get it with *some* name.  I'd be willing to do the work if it
could help make it happen.

--
Ilya Belenkiy

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:07 PM John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:

> > On Dec 9, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Matthew Johnson <matthew at anandabits.com>
> wrote:
> >> We should be disallowing access modifiers in function contexts anyway.
> >
> > I didn't mean people would expect to use the access modifier in a
> function context, but it is common to refer to member variables as
> 'public', 'internal' or 'private' variables and it is common to refer to
> variables scoped to a function as local variables.  There has never been
> any potential for confusion because there has never been a language I know
> of with a 'local' access modifier.
> >
> > If we add one using this keyword I could imagine confusion between
> members declared with the 'local' access modifier and variables scoped to a
> function.  The potential for confusion would be most prevalent in new
> developers, but I can also imagine casual conversations between experienced
> developers where such confusion might arise.  It's something to consider
> when thinking about whether or not this would be the best keyword to use.
>
> That’s a very good point.
>
> John.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/attachments/20151212/32b89aa1/attachment.html>