Hi Brent,

> On 6 Apr 2017, at 09:10, Brent Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So I'm not sure why you're invoking Objective-C to argue that we need a 
> type-based private.

I’m not trying to invoke the ghost of Apple-languages past, seriously :)

I was outlining a use-case of something that I could do under Objective-C (and 
used regularly), and how type-based private (within the same submodule, sure) 
might be a better answer to that same problem. 

I’m sorry, I realise I’ve derailed my part of this conversation into a feature 
request — I’m trying to express that my experience over the past year is that 
only having private/fileprivate is making it more difficult to maintain some of 
the larger apps that I work on (the file lengths are getting quite long for 
common scenarios I could handle more gracefully in the past). 

Reading that after Swift 4, this will never change has also made me seriously 
uncomfortable given how much conflicted conversation has occurred on this 
topic. To me, it sounds like there is a need to address some of the 
intermediary access levels before this gets locked down permanently, but I’m 
also just an app developer - I don’t have a rounded Comp Sci understanding of 
many of the topics being discussed.

I’ve had my (rambling, slightly grammatically incorrect) say now, thanks for 
listening.



-t


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