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

[Félix Cloutier]

I agree with the common theme that `@abiPublic` is weird. I imagine that not a lot of `@abiPublic` symbols actually want to be internal: they'll almost all be implementation details that really want to be `private` or `fileprivate` but that have to be `internal` to satisfy what (I believe) most people would consider to be a leaky abstraction provided by the Swift language. So why not go all the way and force @inlinable code to only reference public declarations?

What do we get in exchange of subverting the thus-far clear meaning of `internal`? Why is it better to have a special kind of internal that is not internal, instead of a special kind of public that is not listed, or even just no special kind of public?

That detail aside, having the ability to do cross-module inlining and specializing is valuable and exciting.

Félix

> Le 20 déc. 2017 à 19:19, Ted Kremenek via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
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> The review of "SE-0193 - Cross-module inlining and specialization" begins now and runs through January 5, 2018.
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