[swift-evolution] SE-0025: Scoped Access Level, next steps

[Goffredo Marocchi]

I think that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious may benefit from lowerCamelCasing ;).

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> On 24 Mar 2016, at 11:02, Dany St-Amant via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Le 24 mars 2016 à 01:13, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
>> 
>> <responding to several posts in this thread at once>
>> 
>> [..snip..]
>> How about we continue this trend, and follow other existing Swift keywords that merge two lowercase words (associatedtype, typealias, etc), and use:
>> 
>>    public
>>    moduleprivate
>>    fileprivate
>>    private
>> 
>> The advantages, as I see them are:
>> 1) We keep public and private meaning the “right” and “obvious” things.
>> 2) The declmodifiers “read” correctly.
>> 3) The unusual ones (moduleprivate and fileprivate) don’t use the awkward parenthesized keyword approach.
>> 4) The unusual ones would be “googable”.
>> 5) Support for named submodules could be “dropped in” by putting the submodule name/path in parens: private(foo.bar.baz) or moduleprivate(foo.bar).  Putting an identifier in the parens is much more natural than putting keywords in parens.
>> 
>> What do you all think?
> 
> The think I fear with moduleprivate and fileprivate, is that someone will one day suggest to lowerCamelCase them. The parenthesized version was de-facto preventing my fear from ever being reality.
> Obviously, I am on the "all keywords should be all lowercases" team.
> 
> Dany
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