<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 28, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Matt Whiteside via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">If the following parenthesized access keywords are still on the table as an option,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 27, 2016, at 14:31, Haravikk via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>public<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>as-is, item is public/exported outside of module</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>private(module) or private<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>current internal, item is private to this module, would be the default</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>private(file)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>current private, item is private to this file</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>private(scope)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>new visibility type, item is private to the current scope</font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would prefer them over these ones:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>public<br class=""> moduleprivate<br class=""> fileprivate<br class=""> private</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To my eyes, the parenthesized ones are more readable and understandable.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>+1 to paren syntax for readability, private(module) being the default if nothing declared, private with no parenthesized access keyword can default to either file or scope.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-DW</div></body></html>