[PITCH] compilerSettings: a top level statement for enabling compiler flags locally in a specific file

[allevato (Tony Allevato)]

@ktoso

Especially a “Default…” typealias is what we did for Distributed and back then it was argued that this is in order to follow some prior precedent already.

I also raised the idea of using a top-level typealias in the pitch thread on controlling default actor isolation, based on the (albeit little used) feature where the default type of literals can be changed within a file.

IIRC, a fileprivate typealias in the literal case only affects that file, not the whole module. I didn't realize Distributed also used a top-level typealias for something like this, and that just points to even more precedent for expressing certain type-based defaults in this manner.