<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 7, 2017, at 04:18, Gwendal Roué 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="" 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;">- the private/fileprivate qualifier used not to be a intrinsic property of an object (because one had to move from private to fileprivate as soon as an extension was added). Now private/fileprivate can be made meaningful, and above all *stable*. A scenario where private is turned into a fileprivate now involves something called "friendship" in C++: fileprivate now reflects *actual design intent*, not "shut up this stupid compiler".</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I, uh, wish to object to your implication that C++ 'friend' reflects actual design intent in most cases. :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan</div></body></html>