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

[Ilya Belenkiy]

I am sure that fileprivate is very useful. SE-0025 did not ask to remove it.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:57 PM Ilya Belenkiy <ilya.belenkiy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> all of these names (public, internal, private, local) have specific
> meaning in the context of computer languages. I think that we should use
> standard terms and give them the expected meaning. I did not do this
> originally with SE-0025 and suggested "scoped" because I thought that
> "private" could not be changed. But since it can, we should definitely use
> it, and give it the meaning that most people expect.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:57 PM Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>> > I honestly still think "public, internal, private, local" is a better
>> taxonomy.. It's true that "internal" and "private" aren't automatically
>> ordered relative to each other (and maybe not even "local"), but they're
>> all adjectives (unlike "module" and "file"), and they're not awkward to
>> read or to use in conversation. But both the core team and the list
>> disagree, mainly because (a) it aligns 'private' more closely with other
>> languages, and (b) if you're not thinking about it, more restrictive is
>> better than less. (Both of which I agree are good ideas.)
>>
>> If we're not married to "private" being the most private access level, I
>> think there is a word that implies more privacy than "private": "secret".
>> Something that's private is often still shared with trusted people, but
>> something that's secret is very carefully protected indeed. "Three may keep
>> a secret, if two of them are dead."
>>
>> So then our four access levels would be:
>>
>> * public
>> * internal
>> * private
>> * secret
>>
>> --
>> Brent Royal-Gordon
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