[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Sealed classes by default

John McCall rjmccall at apple.com
Thu Jun 30 15:36:44 CDT 2016


> On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:54 PM, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> > On Jun 29, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Vladimir.S <svabox at gmail.com <mailto:svabox at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > How about `public(extensible)` ?
> 
> Hmm.  I started to work out an example with these as separate modifiers, and I think I understand the need to combine them in some way.
> 
> I wonder if just "extensible" would be good enough.  It is a term that's used in API descriptions.
> 
> This particular word is unfortunate because it has nothing to do with an extension, which shares the same etymological root.

I agree, but I'm not sure that it's particularly confusing in practice.

John.
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