<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 Oct 30, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Mike Kluev <<a href="mailto:mike.kluev@gmail.com" class="">mike.kluev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On 30 October 2017 at 16:34, Adam Kemp <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:adam_kemp@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">adam_kemp@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=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class="">I didn’t mean “no, you can’t do that”. You can if you want to. What I meant was “no, I’m not suggesting that you should do that”. I don’t think it’s necessary.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as you said before the benefit of keeping private things private is minimizing the amount of code that can break once you change a variable. if it's "internal" - the whole module must be checked. if it is "internal" rather than "private”:</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">it is done because otherwise i'd have to keep the (big) class in a single file</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>The goal isn’t to entirely avoid having to audit any code while making a change. The goal is to allow you to reason about which code you would have to audit. A new access level should lead to a new bucket of code that needs to be audited, but none of the proposals here would do that. They’re all equivalent to existing access levels.</div></div><br class=""></body></html>