<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=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2017, at 6:35 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Douglas Gregor <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:dgregor@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">dgregor@apple.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;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2017, at 11:33 AM, Jordan Rose <<a href="mailto:jordan_rose@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">jordan_rose@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-3425067472639878749Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2017, at 20:40, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-3425067472639878749Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div 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" class="">This makes the private/fileprivate distinction meaningful for extensions. I think also bans the use of "private" at global scope for non-nominal types or extensions thereof. A clarifying update to the proposal is in order, so developers can better understand the semantics. </div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Wait, hang on, then people have to write 'fileprivate' instead of 'private' for top-level typealiases (and functions?). </div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class="">That seems like the correct behavior; private is about members with SE-0169. What do you think?</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...that seems suboptimal, given that the goal has been to make it possible for people to use `private` more and not less frequently. IMO, there's no need for `private typealias` at the global level to be prohibited.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yeah, I see no reason for this to change the behavior of private extensions to be more restrictive than before.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>John.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">Apart from whether or not that's desirable, it's not backwards-compatible.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Very true! It’s an easy thing to migrate, but it’s a source break nonetheless. Let’s decide if it’s desirable and bring it up with the core team.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="m_-3425067472639878749Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- Doug</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>
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