> On Mar 28, 2016, at 18:20, Matthew Judge <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are two different questions that we keep bouncing back and forth > between. Given: > > class Outer { > private var outerVar: Int > class Inner { > private var innerVar: Int > } > } > > Is outerVar visible inside Inner? To me this seems 'obvious'... Yes. > > Is innerVar visible to Outer? The answer to this impacts what I think the > access modifiers should be called.
Fair question. Data: - C++: no, but the language has "friend". - Java: yes - C#: no - Ruby: no, but "private" means something slightly different - D: yes, but "private" means something more like Swift's current "private" - Kotlin: no - Scala, Python, Go, Rust, Objective-C, Smalltalk: either no access control or no nested types, AFAICT So it's tending towards "no" but it's not as consistent. I agree that if we pick "yes" then (for example) "scoped" would be a confusing name. Jordan _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
