It seems that there is not a private, or for that matter public, keyword in swift language. So it is possible at all to have a private property?
On a side note, Swift is very much similar to Typescript per my observation so far.
Swift - Properties. Swift 4 language provides properties for class, enumeration or structure to associate values. Properties can be further classified into Stored properties and Computed properties.
Such properties are known as type properties. Property observers are also used Swift 4 introduces Stored Property concept to store the instances of constants and variables. Stored properties of constants are defined by the 'let' keyword and Stored properties of variables are defined by the 'var' keyword.
In Swift 4 to observe and respond to property values Property Observers are used. Each and every time when property values are set property observers are called. Except lazy stored properties we can add property observers to 'inherited' property by method 'overriding'.
In C and Objective-C, you define static constants and variables associated with a type as global static variables. In Swift, however, type properties are written as part of the type’s definition, within the type’s outer curly braces, and each type property is explicitly scoped to the type it supports.
Update:
As of Xcode 6 beta 4, Swift has Access Control - https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=5
Swift doesn't have access modifiers yet. But there are plans to add them in the future
There are also some workarounds mentioned in the above linked thread, like using nested classes:
import Foundation
class KSPoint {
/*!
* Inner class to hide the helper functions from codesense.
*/
class _KSPointInner {
class func distance(point p1 : KSPoint, toPoint p2 : KSPoint) -> Double {
return sqrt(pow(Double(p2.x - p1.x), 2) + pow(Double(p2.y - p1.y), 2))
}
}
var x : Int
var y : Int
init(x : Int = 0, y : Int = 0) {
self.x = x
self.y = y
}
func distance(point : KSPoint, toPoint : KSPoint) -> Double {
return _KSPointInner.distance(point: point, toPoint: toPoint)
}
}
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