<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></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 Apr 4, 2017, at 1:30 PM, David Hart 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=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">The Core Team has said they will not consider renaming private. End of story.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">It sounds like the core team will not consider a code migration that rewrites “private” to “scoped”, because it would cause too much code churn. Do we have confirmation that they would not consider introducing “scoped” <i class="">without</i> a migration and thus without the attendant code churn? (That is, revert “private” back to its Swift 2 meaning, introduce “scoped” in Swift 4, but don’t perform any automatic migration from “private” to “scoped”.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If that kind of change is out of scope, then I agree that this proposal is the best remaining alternative. But it’s not the <i class="">best</i> alternative. It removes the strict “scoped private” without a full replacement, and leaves “fileprivate” as an awkward name the language. It does leave “private” in a more usable state for the common case, which is good. If we have to choose between this and nothing, I choose this. But I would still like to hear from the core team regarding the possibility of introducing “scoped” without a migration (and thus without the code churn they cited as a concern.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-BJ</div></body></html>