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

[Matthew Johnson]

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> On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:07 AM, Ilya Belenkiy via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> It's very consistent with other keywords. I wish compound keywords were joined with a dash or something that made them easier to read, but I guess it's too late now. If we have associatedtype, it makes sense to use moduleprivate (I saw that the name  associatedtype was discussed extensively but didn't participate in the discussion; I am sure that it was given a lot of thought). If we could change this, I'd suggest keyword names with dashes everywhere, but if not, these names work well and is a great compromise for everything I've seen in this thread.
> 
> I am not worried about the length because the 2 most frequently written keywords would be public and private. Moduleprivate is the default, and file private will not be used as often as private.
> 
> One question: should the proposal be explicit about access control for nested classes? We discussed it here briefly (I wanted private to be completely private to the class or extension itself while 2 other people wanted a nested class to have access to the outer class.)

I don't think it would make sense at all to allow an outer type to see private members of a nested class.  That would break the semantics of private meaning "containing scope".

However, with Chris's suggestion of using identifiers as parameters, maybe we could eventually have something like private(OuterTypeName) to specify the precise level of access desired.

> 
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:13 AM Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> <responding to several posts in this thread at once>
>> 
>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 5:18 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> > Per Doug’s email, the core team agrees we should make a change here, but would like some bikeshedding to happen on the replacement name for private.
>> 
>> What we do with private setters is orthogonal from this proposal, so I’m going to ignore it in this thread.  After SE-0025 is resolved, it would be great to have another thread/proposal that discusses reskinning private(set) - presumably as just a modifier on the setter.
>> 
>> Similarly, this proposal has nothing to do with “protected” or any other type based access control, so I don’t delve into that at all either.
>> 
>> I’ve seen several proposals that seem promising:
>> 
>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 5:49 PM, James Berry <jberry at rogueorbit.com> wrote:
>> > I like fileprivate, if that’s the only change. On the other hand, if we want to consider a broader change, what about:
>> >
>> >       private                 symbol visible within the current declaration (class, extension, etc).
>> >       private(module) symbol visible within the current module.
>> >       private(file)           symbol visible within the current file.
>> 
>> I love how this establishes a family with different levels of access control, and unites them under the idea of "levels of being private”.  I also like how people would commonly only ever write public and private (because “private(module)” is the default, and "private(file)" is obscure).  However, parenthesized modifiers that take a keyword (as opposed to an identifier) are a bit weird and awkward, so it would be nice to avoid them if possible.
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2016, at 3:39 AM, Thorsten Seitz via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> > public
>> > private-module
>> > private-file
>> > private
>> 
>> This follows the same sort of structure as James’ proposal, without the parens.  It has the same advantages, but trades them with hyphenated decl modifiers.  We don’t do that, but it is a good direction.
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> -Chris
>> 
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