Access control below public [not `protected`]

type based visibility control is related but not completely the same mechanism as access control. Joe Groff explained this well here:

In my ideal world,

  • fileprivate doesn’t exist and private means what fileprivate currently does
  • we get submodules along with a modifier associated with them.

Classes in separate files that share internal details would share a submodule. It doesn’t completely solve the issue of “hiding it as completely as possible from myself as I can” but I prefer not introducing the axis of inheritance as a concern

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