<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Jordan Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jordan_rose@apple.com" target="_blank">jordan_rose@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class=""><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 29, 2016, at 14:03, Xiaodi Wu <<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
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> On Jun 29, 2016, at 13:13, Jose Cheyo Jimenez <<a href="mailto:cheyo@masters3d.com" target="_blank">cheyo@masters3d.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I know this might be have been brought up before but<br>
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> why not just disallow the “private" keyword for top level types, extensions etc.<br>
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> A fixit could change top level `private` to `fileprivate`.<br>
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> I think this is a little less confusing since effectively this is what is happening in the background.<br>
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</span>That doesn’t fix anything for inner types, so it’s a lot less important than the rest of the amendment.<br>
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There actually is an answer to this, which is that the core team expects 'private' to be the common keyword, and therefore it’s better if you can use it at the top level and ignore ‘fileprivate’ altogether in most programs.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On second thought, wouldn't all of this be inapplicable if `private` literally meant visibility *only* within the current declaration, and neither outside it nor inside any nested types, etc.?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div></span><div>Yes, but that's not very useful:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>public struct Foo {</div><div> private var value: Int = 0</div><div> public func test() {</div><div> print(value) // error</div><div> }</div><div>}</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I suppose you could say that nested <i>types</i> are different from nested <i>functions,</i> but then we start getting complexity in a different direction. And it still doesn't fix the default access within a private type.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Let me offer a principled rule: if I write `private var foo`, then `foo` is invisible at such places within the declaration where writing `private var bar` at the same place would cause `bar` to be visible where `foo` is not or vice versa.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div></div><div>Jordan</div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>