
17 Sep
2013
17 Sep
'13
6:58 a.m.
It also makes actual definitions cleaner/shorter rather than cluttering them with extra annotations (either PRAGMAs or public/private markers), though this is not that big of a deal.
It's true, though you could get it pretty short, e.g. default private and leading ! for public. Go uses capitalization, though that's already taken for haskell.