Part of it.  My concern is that the brackets will push everything in the file 
to the right.

My question is: What do we get in return for that? (as opposed to a system 
which acted on the whole file)

Thanks,
Jon


> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:45 PM, Jaden Geller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Oh, you’re referring to the fact that a submodule under this proposal must be 
> contained within braces? It would be purely additive to, in the future, 
> annotate that the outer scope of a file is part of some given submodule.
> 
> Consider the following the following straw-man syntax that might be 
> equivalent to `module Bar { func foo() { } }`:
> ```
> module Bar follows // <- at top of file, indicating rest of file is submodule
> 
> func foo() { }
> ```
> 
> Does this address your question?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jaden Geller
> 
>> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:39 PM, Jonathan Hull <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 20, 2017, at 6:42 PM, Jaden Geller <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jon,
>>> 
>>> I think we might have miscommunicated. It is intended that outermost module 
>>> is implicit; no `module` declaration is required to wrap every file. We 
>>> tried to show this in the first code snippet.
>>> 
>>> What do you mean “covering only part of a file”?
>> 
>> I am assuming that the ModuleName { … }  only affects things within the 
>> brackets.  Thus it is possible for only part of a file to be within a 
>> module.  What are the benefits of allowing this, and are they worth the 
>> added complexity?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>> 
>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jaden Geller
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 20, 2017, at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution 
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> What is the rational for having modules covering only part of a file?  
>>>> Wouldn’t it be less clutter to have an annotation which worked for the 
>>>> whole file.  At the very least it would be nice to have an option to spell 
>>>> it in a way that applies to the whole file.  Otherwise, everything will be 
>>>> indented another level.
>>>> 
>>>> I would honestly love to see something which just maps modules to 
>>>> folders/groups for simplicity sake.
>>>> 
>>>> I haven’t thought about it too much yet, so I could easily be missing 
>>>> something obvious...
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jon
>> 
> 

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