Yep good point Ross. Should have double checked that.(I think it is because 
kids in school kept saying intermural instead of intramural You would think the 
latin I took would have broken me of that. :-). 

I think all of the proposals below are clear and I like any of them except 3, 
too long. The parenthesized ones are if we want consistency between the middle 
two scopes.  

So, proposal one (and 1b), more technical sounding

public
internal (or intramodule)
intrafile
private

Proposal two infile (and 2b). Shortest, eye pleasing, non technical sounding 

public
internal (or inmodule) 
infile
private

Proposal three: (and 3b) longest names, multiword. reusing private, unpleasing 
compound words.. 

public 
internal (or moduleprivate)
fileprivate
private

proposal four: (and 4b):kind of needs the 4b form, to show pattern (I think)

private
internal (modulewide)
filewide
private

proposal five (and 5b) short eye pleasing. 

private
internal (moduleonly)
fileonly
private


> On Mar 31, 2016, at 2:10 AM, Ross O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > public
> > internal
> > interfile
> > private
> 
> Linguistically, I really like this direction. 'interfile' is one word, it 
> reads as an adjective, it can be used in conversation (this has interfile 
> visibility), and it's clear about where its visibility ends.
> 
> It just doesn't mean what you think it means.
> 
> 'inter' means 'between'. See: 'intergalactic', 'interstellar', 
> 'international', 'internet'. So 'interfile' would have to mean 'visible 
> between files' - i.e. an interfile symbol in one file is visible in another 
> file. The prefix you're looking for, meaning 'internal', is 'intra' (see: 
> 'intravenous', 'intranet').
> 
> So the scale would become:
> 
> public / intermodule
> internal / intramodule / interfile
> intrafile
> private
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Paul Ossenbruggen via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> public
> internal
> interfile
> private
> 
> still googleable and very clear its scope and meaning, nice latin root. 
> Doesn’t overload “private”, slightly shorter.
> 
> 
> > On Mar 30, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Thorsten Seitz via swift-evolution 
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > Looks good to me.
> >
> > -Thorsten
> >
> >> Am 31.03.2016 um 06:22 schrieb Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
> >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> >>
> >>> On Mar 23, 2016, at 10:13 PM, Chris Lattner <[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.
> >>
> >> I’ve seen a number of concerns on this list about moduleprivate, and how 
> >> it penalizes folks who want to explicitly write their access control.  
> >> I’ve come to think that there is yes-another possible path forward here 
> >> (which I haven’t seen mentioned so far):
> >>
> >> public
> >> internal
> >> 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) Compared to Swift 2, there is almost no change.  The only thing that 
> >> changes is that some uses of Swift 2 “private” will be migrated to 
> >> “fileprivate”, which makes the intent of the code much more clear.
> >> 4) fileprivate is the unusual and 
> >> not-really-precedented-in-other-languages modifier, and it would still be 
> >> “googable”.
> >> 5) The addresses the “excessively long” declmodifier problem that several 
> >> people are concerned with.
> >> 6) Support for named submodules could be “dropped in” by parameterizing 
> >> “internal”.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> -Chris
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