<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=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 6, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Xiaodi Wu <<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" class="">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Charles Srstka <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:cocoadev@charlessoft.com" target="_blank" class="">cocoadev@charlessoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 6, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="m_86460104315027634m_1085067803240797926Apple-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;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">`private` works for extensions exactly how the authors of SE-0025 intended it to do. Your comments do not address what would happen for those people who are making use of this functionality currently to isolate methods to the extension only.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></span><div class="">Who is currently doing that?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Presumably, proponents of SE-0025. That is, after all, an explicit part of that design, reviewed and approved by the Swift community and core team.</div></div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I’m more interested in practicality than appeals to authority. If no one is actually using extensions in this way, then we don’t need it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charles</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>