[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0169: Improve Interaction Between private Declarations and Extensions

Charlie Monroe charlie at charliemonroe.net
Thu Apr 6 23:57:48 CDT 2017


-1 for reasons I've previously expressed in the discussions:

- It encourages everything to be stuffed in one file.
- It doesn't actually solve anything as the new private is very close to fileprivate, while abolishing private as truly scoped - which is a tool I use on regular basis.

Simply as long as it's file-based, it's not a solution, it's just another attempt to satisfy some part of the community. I'm not saying that the current access levels are perfect, but I still believe the way to go is to either use submodules, and/or introducing the concept of "protected" members.

> On Apr 7, 2017, at 1:10 AM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Hello Swift community,
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> The review of SE-0169 "Improve Interaction Between private Declarations and Extensions" begins now and runs through April 11, 2017. The proposal is available here:
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