<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 12, 2017, at 9:19 AM, Milos Jakovljevic 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=""><div class="">Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class="">Can anyone elaborate whats the idea behind private and fileprivate ? Or better yet what is the purpose of fileprivate ? <br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">See SE-0025 and the discussion links at the top of the proposal:</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0025-scoped-access-level.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0025-scoped-access-level.md</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div></body></html>