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> On 21 Mar 2017, at 20:36, Goffredo Marocchi <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 21 Mar 2017, at 16:23, Davor Jankolija via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> What is your evaluation of the proposal?
>> 
>> + 1.
>> 
>> Don’t like to admit it but i favored the fileprivate modifier when it was 
>> introduced. Alas more experince with Swift has meant that I now very often 
>> catch myself changing private to fileprivate if for nothing else then to 
>> allow protocol conformance through extensions in the same file. Even though 
>> this may not be a good enough reason to make me go with supporting the 
>> proposal, the fact that access modifiers are fundamental to most modern PLs 
>> and fileprivate vs private as is is now adds too little while on the other 
>> hand adds another access modifier which IMHO should be simple and allow 
>> encapsluation (as some have said, internal and public are actually enough to 
>> achieve this) means for me this is something worth reverting.
> 
> The current situation does not prevent anyone from expressing 
> themselves/implementing their preferred patterns. I am really not sure why we 
> should revert a change which allowed people that value and need scope based 
> access to do their job?
> 
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>>> Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to 
>>> Swift?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how 
>>> do you feel that this proposal compares to those?
>> 
>> Most other languages encapsulate based on type and inheritance, so this 
>> strays a bit by making private extend beyond the class definition itself. 
>> However, no other language I’ve used make use of extensions the way Swift 
>> does so it makes sense in a Swift environment.
>> 
>>> How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or 
>>> an in-depth study?
>> 
>> Followed both the original conversation added fileprivate as well as the 
>> other conversations which led to this proposal. 
>> 
>> - Davor
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