[swift-evolution] [REVIEW] SE-0193 - Cross-module inlining and specialization

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> On Dec 20, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> My one bikeshedding issue here is the name @abiPublic, which smells too much like fileprivate in my subjective opinion. A more concrete objection here is the very much non-ideal juxtaposition of two different access modifier terms in the "@abiPublic internal" spelling. It would seem to me that "@abi" would suffice instead. Indeed, the fact that it's an "interface" implies a certain level of visibility, which in my view is more precise than coopting the term "public"--that term in turn has an established meaning in Swift that, by construction, an "@abiPublic internal" method does not fulfill.

I concur. If we don't care about its ungainly size, the blindingly obvious solution would be `@inlineCallable`. Another solution might be to declare the symbol with a combination like `@hidden public`, which I assume is a closer representation of how this feature is actually implemented.

(Incidentally, the proposal doesn't mention `open`; I suspect that it probably should.)

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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