> On Mar 24, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Ilya Belenkiy via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is why I'd like private to mean exactly that (no nested class should get 
> access). Then the meaning is clear: it's as private as it can be :-)

In that case, you want a type-based access control mechanism, not a scope-based 
access control mechanism.  Your proposal that was provisionally accepted is for 
a scope-based mechanism.  

Chris’s request for bikeshedding on names did not include a request to bikeshed 
on semantics.  Any discussion about type-based access control should happen in 
a different thread IMO.

> 
> Private and public have well defined meaning. We 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:33 AM Ross O'Brien via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I agree that 'private' still feels too subjective on its own. It's 
> intuitively 'not public'; it's not intuitively the access term for 
> 'declaration only'.
> 
> I'm not opposed to fileprivate and moduleprivate, if we like those terms. I'd 
> just prefer a corresponding scopeprivate or declarationprivate.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Brandon Knope via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> > How about we continue this trend, and follow other existing Swift keywords 
> > that merge two lowercase words (associatedtype, typealias, etc), and use:
> >
> >    public
> >    moduleprivate
> >    fileprivate
> >    private
> >
> > The advantages, as I see them are:
> > 1) We keep public and private meaning the “right” and “obvious” things.
> > 2) The declmodifiers “read” correctly.
> > 3) The unusual ones (moduleprivate and fileprivate) don’t use the awkward 
> > parenthesized keyword approach.
> > 4) The unusual ones would be “googable”.
> > 5) Support for named submodules could be “dropped in” by putting the 
> > submodule name/path in parens: private(foo.bar.baz) or 
> > moduleprivate(foo.bar).  Putting an identifier in the parens is much more 
> > natural than putting keywords in parens.
> >
> > What do you all think?
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
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> I'm not sure my wording will be perfect here, but I will try: I still believe 
> that private is implied in "module" and "file" and the problem is in the name 
> of the plain "private" keyword.
> 
> You may say private is obvious, but when you have moduleprivate and 
> fileprivate, the natural question I ask is "What remaining kind of private is 
> there?" so private's obviousness is muddied for me when next to moduleprivate 
> and fileprivate.
> 
> I will say I would prefer these keywords to the proposed parameter keywords. 
> I just think:
> 
> file -> implies file only
> module -> implies module only
> 
> where adding private to them only adds noise (I.e. fileprivate and 
> moduleprivate)
> 
> Brandon
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