Open Radar

 
Access control annotations are far too verbose and require too much effort to maintain, modify, promote, and demote through the lifecycle of coding.

public struct Token {
    public let token: Character
    public let content: String
    
    public let column: Int
    public let line: Int
}

Number of characters = 143 (or 343 if I include the required init() as the generated one is internal).

struct Token {
   let token: Character
   let content: String
    
   let column: Int
   let line: Int
}

Number of characters = 104

That’s nearly 30% of the code is just for “public”. 

The “workaround” for this is online all of your decls:

    public let token: Character,
        content: String,
        column: Int,
        line: Int

Or on a single line:

    public let token: Character, content: String, column: Int, line: Int

That’s just terrible and does not scale past the most trivial of types. C++ does a much better job here when handling member access control:

public struct Token {
public:
   let token: Character
   let content: String
    
   let column: Int
   let line: Int
}

We need something better.