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

[John McCall]

> On Apr 7, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> On Apr 7, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Goffredo Marocchi <panajev at gmail.com <mailto:panajev at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 7 Apr 2017, at 09:56, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>>> What is your evaluation of the proposal?
>>> 
>>> Strong -1.  Just rename ‘fileprivate’ to be less annoying.
>> 
>> So, we keep being told it won't happen and our current Bly suggestion discussing this proposal cannot be to just keep asking for it, can it?
> 
> We were told we can’t do the double rename.  I believe renaming ‘fileprivate’ is still on the table (or at least it will have to be at some point when we consider submodules).

We could, in some future update, introduce a new keyword and deprecate 'fileprivate'.  Whether this impacts submodules really remains to be seen — there are about twenty different things that people mean by "submodules", and it's not at all clear that we should be aiming for a sub-file granularity instead of a super-file granularity.  I understand that some people just seem personally offended by the existence of files, though.

We will not be changing the meaning of 'private' after Swift 4.

John.

> 
> If renaming ‘fileprivate’ is truly off the table, we should definitely NOT accept this proposal (for all the reasons I and others have stated).  We should keep the status quo, horrible as it may be.
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