Updated in https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/396 
<https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/396>. Thanks again, everyone!

Jordan

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 16:51, Jordan Rose <jordan_r...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> I just attended a core team meeting where this whole thing was discussed, and 
> will update our amendment <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/383> 
> tonight. But in short:
> 
> - The default access level will be 'internal' everywhere*. The compiler will 
> not warn if the access-as-written is broader than necessary. Motivation: it 
> should be possible to design a type's API as if it had more access than it 
> currently does.
> 
> * except in extensions, see below
> 
> - The complicated "rule 2" from the amendment stands, but possibly in a form 
> that isn't specific to 'fileprivate':
> 
>> A non-private method, initializer, subscript, property, or typealias may 
>> still have a type that references `private` declarations if (1) the 
>> non-private declaration is a member of a private type, and (2) all 
>> referenced `private` declarations are defined within an enclosing lexical 
>> scope. That is, it is legal for a non-private member within a `private` type 
>> to have a type that is formally `private` if it would be legal for a 
>> `private` declaration in the parent scope to have that type.
> 
> 
> As Xiaodi pointed out, this could be even broader, to say that an internal 
> member may reference a fileprivate type if the member is itself defined 
> within a fileprivate type, because it's still safe. That would look like this:
> 
>> A member may not have a type that references any declarations that aren't 
>> accessible wherever the member is accessible.
> 
> I'm concerned about that being too permissive, though. I still want this to 
> be considered an error:
> 
> fileprivate struct Foo {
>   fileprivate typealias Bar = Int
>   internal func baz() -> Bar { … }
> }
> 
> - An access modifier on an extension has been ruled to indicate the desired 
> scope, not the desired access. Therefore, members within a `private 
> extension` will be `fileprivate`. (We're only really getting away with this 
> because we don't allow extensions anywhere but at the top level, though if we 
> had nested extensions we'd probably consider them scoped anyway.)
> 
> - We are not looking at renaming either 'fileprivate' or 'private' for Swift 
> 3.
> 
> - All this has been ruled not to need a formal review.
> 
> Thanks everyone for getting us to this point. It's definitely different from 
> what I would have come up with on my own or just collaborating with Robert, 
> so you can all count yourselves as contributors to this one. :-)
> 
> Jordan
> 
> P.S. If you see further issues here I'd still like to hear them; if you're 
> unclear on any points after I've updated the pull request 
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/383>, I'm happy to go over 
> them again.

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