Namespaces × submodules

[tim1724 (Tim Buchheim)]

@masters3d

The whole premise of submodules is access control. I just can not think of another reason for submodules but access control.

I must be missing something. Honestly, what am I missing?

See this thread:

"Submodule" is an ambiguous term

A request from me: if you use the word "submodule" to refer to any particular feature or design, please explain what you're using it for. People have a lot of different features they want in Swift that could be called "submodules", and there's not one agreed-upon design that people will understand when you say the word. I'll try to list the most common requests / proposals below. (Note that many proposed designs have combined more than one of these features. I've tried to decompose them for the …