> On Feb 16, 2017, at 14:34, Slava Pestov via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> While we’re bikeshedding, I’m going to add my two cents. Hold on to your hat 
> because this might be controversial here.
> 
> I think both ‘private’ and ‘fileprivate’ are unnecessary complications that 
> only serve to clutter the language.
> 
> It would make a lot more sense to just have internal and public only. No 
> private, no fileprivate, no lineprivate, no protected. It’s all silly.
> 
> Slava

I am behind this idea too.  The access control modifiers seem like mostly a 
distraction from more interesting considerations.  If they are causing big 
headaches in the implementation, I wouldn’t mind if they were cut down to just 
internal and public.

-Matt


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