[swift-evolution] [Proposal Draft] Remove open Access Modifier

Chris Lattner clattner at nondot.org
Tue Feb 21 22:56:03 CST 2017


> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Dimitri Racordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here’s a draft proposal following https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170220/032576.html <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170220/032576.html>.
> The idea is simplify Swift’s syntax by getting rid of the `open` access modifier.

This is a source breaking change that needs extreme justification.  Since the (extensive) discussion that introduced ‘open’ in Swift 3, I haven’t heard of practical problems with it, so I see little to no chance of this proposal going anywhere.

-Chris


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