Swift is now open source. For the latest news, visit the Swift open source blog The response to support for access control in Swift has been extremely positive. However, some developers have been asking, “Why doesn’t Swift have something like protected?” Many other programming languages have an access control option that restricts certain methods from being accessed from anywhere except subclasses
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