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

[Jordan Rose]

> On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:35, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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> 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.
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> I hardly think it is “mean” or “capricious” to provide a *fully automated migrator* to make the keywords better.
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> The discussion of SE-0159 reached a near-consensus that the access levels should be spelled “private” and “scoped”.
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> I was shocked and dismayed that the core team did anything other than enthusiastically adopt that resolution.

I didn't get the sense of a "near-consensus", but one concern that I don't remember being brought up on list was that it would make mixing Swift 3 and Swift 4 much more confusing (including when dealing with sample code snippets found online).

Jordan

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