There is nothing preventing you from using fileprivate if you want to write 
your code in this style.  At most you can complain that you don't like the new 
keyword.  But you're not losing any functionality so I don't understand why you 
say you are "missing" something.

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> On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:25 AM, David Hart via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 29 Jun 2016, at 04:03, Matthew Judge <matthew.ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If I understand SE-0025 (even with the amendment) you can still spell the 
>> access modifier to types as 'private' and get the same characteristics as 
>> the pre-SE-0025 meaning or private, so I'm not sure I understand the concern 
>> here. However (continued below)
> 
> The characteristic I will be missing is for the following style of writing:
> 
> class MyViewController : UIViewController {
>     private var privateInfo: String?
> }
> 
> //MARK: Public
> 
> public extension MyViewController {
>     func publicFunction() {
>         // CAN’T ACCESS privateInfo
>     }
> }
> 
> //MARK: UITableViewDataSource
> 
> private extension MyViewController : UITableViewDataSource {
>     func numberOfRowsInSection(_ section: Int) -> Int
>         // CAN’T ACCESS privateInfo
>     }
> }
> 
> //MARK: Private
> 
> private extension MyViewController {
>     func implementationFunction() {
>         // CAN’T ACCESS privateInfo
>     }
> }
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