On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 3:36 PM, John McCall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:54 PM, John McCall via swift-evolution <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > On Jun 29, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Vladimir.S <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > How about `public(extensible)` ?
>>
>> Hmm.  I started to work out an example with these as separate modifiers,
>> and I think I understand the need to combine them in some way.
>>
>> I wonder if just "extensible" would be good enough.  It is a term that's
>> used in API descriptions.
>>
>
> This particular word is unfortunate because it has nothing to do with an
> extension, which shares the same etymological root.
>
>
> I agree, but I'm not sure that it's particularly confusing in practice.
>

Why not just "inheritable"? That is, after all, what we mean, no?

John.
>
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