> On Apr 22, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Jose Cheyo Jimenez via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Apr 21, 2017, at 8:41 PM, BJ Homer via swift-evolution >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The "Access Control" section of the Swift 3 book says the following: >>>> You can mark an extension with an explicit access-level modifier (for >>>> example, private extension) to set a new default access level for all >>>> members defined within the extension. >>> The behavior of "private extension" in Swift 3 was a deviation from that >>> model, justified because "private" as a default would have meant that >>> nothing in the extension could ever be called. But it was still contrary to >>> the model suggested by the Swift documentation. >>> >>> Given the highly restrictive behavior of "private" in Swift 3 and the >>> documentation quoted above, it seems unlikely that a developer would >>> intentionally use "private extension" to mean "please make all this stuff >>> visible to the entire file"—it would have worked, but it seems an odd way >>> to write it. If that were the intention, I think "fileprivate extension" >>> would have been more likely. >>> >>> I think the change to the behavior of "private extension" is in line with >>> the model proposed by SE-0169, in line with the documented behavior of >>> access control on extensions, and in line with user expectations. >>> >>> -BJ >> >> I understand your point. Another aspect of SE-0169 is that fileprivate >> should be more rare and thus meaningful when used. The current behavior >> stays true to the goal of making fileprivate rare. >> >> A top level private scope is effectively fileprivate so it is not totally >> weird for the extension members to inherit the top level private scope. >> >> When extensions gain the ability to contain properties, we should not allow >> the access level modifiers to the extensions in the same way protocol >> extensions prohibit its use. > > That idea would be my preference too, but it has been already written up as a > proposal, considered, and rejected.
Properties in extensions? AKA partials ? I was thinking disallow only when properties are introduced in the extension not in general.
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