[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0117: Default classes to be non-subclassable publicly

[Nikita Leonov]

+1 with modifications. In my team we write “final class” a lot. We also do have a lot of internal frameworks and an ability to guide external frameworks uses is important for us. We have a lot of candidates in our frameworks that should be inheritable internally, but we do not recommend to extend them outside of framework.

My biggest worry with this proposal is already highlighted in a section "Modifier spelling alternatives”. Proposal introduces a set of new keywords to express relatively similar concept as current `final` keyword. We currently have already an ability to limit inheritance by use `final`, but we can not define a scope. However we also have keywords to define an accessibility scope:
* public — accessible everywhere
* internal — accessible within a module
* private — accessible within a file

For example, by leveraging existing keywords we can write code like following:
final(internal) class Foo {
  final(private) func bar() {
  }
} 
So the class `Foo` is inheritable within a module, but method bar is overridable only within same file. 
There is also optional `final(public)` that literally means no limitations on inheritance that can be used to indicate that class or method is `final(public)` on purpose by design. We use the similar approach in our code base with `internal`, while it is default keyword for classes and functions we still write it to show that it is internal by design and no public / private keyword missing.

Also with suggestion above we can default `final` to `final(private)`to keep backwards compatibility. 

Best,
Nikita Leonov

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