Hi Erica, I think this proposal needs to address how allowing arbitrary identifiers to become declaration modifiers would work during parsing. Custom accessgroups may not be in the same file - or even module - as the code they effect, meaning that
foo bar func myFunction() {} cannot be parsed into anything reasonable until we’ve first found all of the visible accessgroup declarations. It’s even worse when we do syntax-only parsing like we use for some IDE stuff (e.g. syntax colouring, code-folding). In that case we do not import any modules (not even the stdlib), and we are only looking at one file, not the full set of files in the module. Ben > On Apr 14, 2017, at 1:58 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > Pull request: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/681 > <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/681> > > Under the assumption that SE-0169 is adopted, Jeffrey B and I have been > brainstorming about what a follow-on might look like. We want to address > concerns that remain post-0169. Although this proposal is primarily additive, > we feel it might just squeak in under Swift 4's gate as it targets > potentially harmful language issues. > > We appreciate your feedback about the substance of the proposal. At this > time, we're not looking for bikeshedding on design details. We will welcome > that once the question of whether the proposal is sufficiently substantive is > settled. > > Given the extremely limited timeline and the high volume of list traffic, > we're looking for specific concerns (or benefits) you see in this pitch > instead of a flurry of "+1" and "-1" responses . Our primary question regards > whether this is a suitable approach (it is strongly influenced by SE-0077) > and flexible enough to cover at least some outstanding concerns raised in > list threads over the past weeks. > > Thank you in advance for your feedback, > > -- Erica > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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