> On Mar 25, 2017, at 10:54 PM, John McCall via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2017, at 2:11 AM, Carl Brown1 via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes, it would change my opinion of it. I wouldn't become a strong supporter 
>> because I don't see any value in it, but a rigorous proof that this proposal 
>> could not possibly introduce regressions to any existing codebases would 
>> change my opinion from "strongly against" to "doesn't matter to me, I'll 
>> stop arguing against it and go get my real work done".
>> 
> Speaking just for myself, this was a key part of why I was attracted to this 
> proposal: it seemed to me to be extremely unlikely to cause regressions in 
> behavior.  Even without any special behavior in the migrator, code will 
> mostly work exactly as before: things that would have been invalid before 
> will become valid, but not the other way around.

What about overloads that become ambiguous? I admit this is a fringe case.

> The exception is that old-private declarations from scopes in the same file 
> can now be found by lookups in different scopes (but still only within the 
> same file).  It should be quite straightforward for the migrator to detect 
> when this has happened and report it as something for the programmer to look 
> at.  The proposal causes a small regression in functionality, in that there's 
> no longer any way to protect scopes from accesses within the file, but (1) 
> it's okay for Swift to be opinionated about file size and (2) it seems to me 
> that a workable sub-module proposal should solve that more elegantly while 
> simultaneously addressing the concerns of the people who dislike 
> acknowledging the existence of files.
> 
> John.
>> -Carl
>> 
>> <graycol.gif>Xiaodi Wu ---03/25/2017 12:33:55 AM---Would it change your 
>> opinion on the proposal? On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Carl Brown1 
>> <Carl.Br
>> 
>> From: Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]>
>> To: Carl Brown1/US/IBM@IBM
>> Cc: Drew Crawford <[email protected]>, Jonathan Hull <[email protected]>, 
>> swift-evolution <[email protected]>
>> Date: 03/25/2017 12:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0159: Fix Private Access Levels
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Would it change your opinion on the proposal?
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Carl Brown1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I would very much like to see your proof that the resultant code is 
>> unchanged in an arbitrary codebase. 
>> 
>> -Carl
>> 
>> <graycol.gif>Xiaodi Wu ---03/25/2017 12:01:26 AM---On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 
>> 11:55 PM, Carl Brown1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe this is the core
>> 
>> From: Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]>
>> To: Carl Brown1/US/IBM@IBM
>> Cc: Drew Crawford <[email protected]>, Jonathan Hull <[email protected]>, 
>> swift-evolution <[email protected]>
>> Date: 03/25/2017 12:01 AM
>> Subject: Re: [swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0159: Fix Private Access Levels
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Carl Brown1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My point is that, in rolling back the specific portion of SE-0025, 
>> case-sensitive find-and-replace will be the trickiest thing in most 
>> codebases, save those that result in invalid redeclarations. The behavior of 
>> the resultant code is, unless I'm mistaken, provably unchanged.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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