<div dir="ltr">In another thread (no link because we’re not on a forum ;-) the idea was raised that in the future, if and when Swift starts using submodules, the “fileprivate” scope could be turned into “submodule” scope.<div><br></div><div>By default every file would constitute its own submodule, and developers could choose to put several files together into a submodule if they wish.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps there may be a shorter word that nicely implies “submodule scope”.</div><div><br></div><div>Nevin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Jeremy Pereira 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 class=""><br>
> On 27 Sep 2016, at 14:20, Zach Waldowski via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016, at 01:34 AM, Jeremy Pereira via swift-evolution<br>
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>> As for dropping file private, why? You don’t have to use it if you don’t<br>
>> want to, so it’s not hurting you. On the other hand, I can use it when I<br>
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> I'll politely disagree and point out you *must* use fileprivate in order<br>
> to get what it provides. It's unavoidable in that sense.<br>
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</span>That’s not the point I was making. It was mooted that fileprivate should be dropped altogether leading to not having any means of specifying file scope at all. I was simply pointing out that people who don’t like file scope already have the option of not using fileprivate.<br>
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