[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Adding accessibility specifiers to @available

[Tony Allevato]

Whew! Thanks for the heads-up before my prototype hits merge-conflict
madness. :)


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:16 PM Ben Rimmington <me at benrimmington.com> wrote:

> > On 22 Aug 2017, at 17:08, Tony Allevato wrote:
> >
> > A few months ago (before Swift 5 chatter started), I pitched an idea to
> improve the use of @availability in third-party code by eliminating
> deprecation warnings in same-file references. We had some good discussion
> there about who needed same-file deprecation vs. same-module deprecation
> and so forth, and I was convinced that a better approach would be to allow
> @available to be enforced based on accessibility.
>
> FYI
>
> Excise "Accessibility" from the compiler:
> <https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/11504>
>
> > @jrose-apple (Jordan Rose) wrote:
> >
> > "Accessibility" has a different meaning for app developers, so we've
> already deliberately excised it from our diagnostics in favor of terms like
> "access control" and "access level". Do the same in the compiler now that
> we aren't constantly pulling things into the release branch.
> >
> > (This isn't exactly important, but we might as well clean it up.)
>
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