[swift-evolution] Type-based ‘private’ access within a file

[Jordan Rose]

> On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:10, Vladimir.S <svabox at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06.04.2017 20:41, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution wrote:
>> Hi, -evolution. I’ve said this before, but *I think this new proposal is a
>> terrible idea*. It privileges types in a way that is damaging to the language.
>> 
>> [There isn't really anything new in my discussion below; everyone on-thread
>> is smart enough to have brought up these points already. But I wanted to go
>> on record about it, at least.]
> 
> Thank you for sharing your opinion regarding this subject.
> Do I understand correctly, that *you* propose to just revert access levels and modifiers to Swift2 stage? (i.e. to drop current 'scoped-private' and rename 'fileprivate'->'private')
> Or do you support to leave current 'scoped-private' under another name?

Neither, unfortunately. We accepted SE-0025, though I wish we hadn't; we named the two levels "private" and "fileprivate", though I wish we hadn't; and now there is lots of existing code relying on that, and it would be mean and capricious to force people to change that code when they migrated to Swift 4. I don't like where we ended up but Swift does not exist in a vacuum.

Jordan