[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0159: Fix Private Access Levels

[Rob Mayoff]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Drew Crawford via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> A core team member (I'm blanking on who) has pointed out that, in the end,
> the only necessary access modifiers are public and not public (spelled
> "internal" in Swift).
>
>
> It is not clear to me how this squares with the decision in SE-0025 that
> other access modifiers were necessary.  Can you clarify?
>

I believe the reference is to this comment by Slava Pestov on 2017-02-16:

While we’re bikeshedding, I’m going to add my two cents. Hold on to your
> hat
> because this might be controversial here.
>
> I think both ‘private’ and ‘fileprivate’ are unnecessary complications
> that
> only serve to clutter the language.
>


It would make a lot more sense to just have internal and public only. No
> private, no fileprivate, no lineprivate, no protected. It’s all silly.


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