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

[Sean Heber]

This line of thought seems worth some consideration - why require a mental mapping from the meaning of “public” to what it *really* is when it could just say what it means? Although I admit that coming up with decent words or nice phrasings might be harder than it seems. :)

l8r
Sean


> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:12 AM, Vinnie Hesener via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I like the idea of changing some reserved words. Aren't 'private', 'friend, 'public', 'internal', etc just metaphors that were built on top of object encapsulation (another metaphor)? I think we're starting to see the limits of stretching metaphoric syntax.
> 
> Why can't we just start naming access modifiers literally: a location in the code that they apply to. Examples such as "scope" or "insidethecurlybraces" or "file" or "module" or "submodule" or "codebase". Any of these or other synonyms would be much more Swifty in my opinion. 
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