[swift-evolution] [Draft] Fix Private Access Levels

Brent Royal-Gordon brent at architechies.com
Tue Feb 21 09:18:01 CST 2017


> On Feb 21, 2017, at 5:36 AM, Matthew Johnson <matthew at anandabits.com> wrote:
> 
> This is true for lexical scoping, but I'd also like to see scoped be parameterized to take the name of a containing scope, such as a containing submodule.  This would be a powerful tool that allows sibling submodules to collaborate with each other.  It is similar to allowing extensions of different types collaborate within a file, but at a larger level of granularity.

If I correctly understand what you seem to be suggesting, that would mean that access levels would be, ordered from narrowest access to widest, something like:

	scoped
	private
	internal
	scoped(SomeModule, OtherModule)
	public
	open

Having the same keyword appear in two very different places in that list seems...less than ideal.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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