[swift-users] private vs. fileprivate on global declaration in Swift3?

[Quinn "The Eskimo!"]

On 28 Sep 2016, at 17:18, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> To answer the original question: at file scope the access modifiers `private` and `fileprivate` have exactly the same effect. It does not matter which of them you use there.

Right, but that doesn’t tell you which one you /should/ use.  Personally I’d probably go for `fileprivate` because it seems more explicit to me, but I’d be interested in hearing other opinions.

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