> On Apr 3, 2017, at 3:50 PM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am greatly disappointed by this decision. The existence of the keyword 
> “fileprivate” is an unfortunate blemish which never should have been brought 
> into existence. In my view, the churn caused by renaming “private” last year 
> was a major mistake, and we should correct it immediately.

I agree that we shouldn't have done it, but:

> I hope the core team will reconsider the spelling change to “private” and 
> “scoped”.

We won't.

John.

> 
> Nevin
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Proposal Link: 
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0159-fix-private-access-levels.md
>  
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0159-fix-private-access-levels.md>
> 
> The review of ran from March 20...27, 2017. The proposal has been *rejected*.
> 
> The core team had a lengthy discussion of this proposal as well as related 
> ideas that came up during (and prior to) the review [*].
> 
> SE-0159 
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0159-fix-private-access-levels.md>
>  specifically sought to revert the main user-facing part of SE-0025 
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0025-scoped-access-level.md>,
>  which gave “private” lexical-scoping semantics and introduced “fileprivate”. 
> The core team felt that there was sufficient evidence that 
> more-restrictive-than-fileprivate access control is in use within the Swift 
> community and in established patterns, such that it would be harmful to 
> remove the functionality introduced by SE-0025 
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0025-scoped-access-level.md>
>  at this point.
> 
> The core team discussed the idea of renaming to keywords that was brought up 
> in the thread as a way to address many of the concerns raised in SE-0159 
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0159-fix-private-access-levels.md>
>  while providing the same language semantics. Specifically:
> 
>       * “private” -> “scoped”
>       * “fileprivate” -> “private”
> 
> The core team determined that such a change, while (technically) easy to 
> automatically migrate, would introduce far too much churn in Swift code bases 
> moving from Swift 3 to Swift 4, compromising the source stability goals set 
> out for Swift 4.
> 
> Finally, the core team discussed a different potential design for “private” 
> that admits a limited form of type-based access control within files. We will 
> open a separate discussion thread on Swift Evolution, with the subject 
> "Type-based ‘private’ access within a file", and are seeking further 
> discussion there and a motivated volunteer to turn it into a new proposal for 
> Swift 4.
> 
> - Doug Gregor
> Review Manager
> 
> [*] Big thanks to Alex Martini for his excellent notes.
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