[olgagalchenko]

>> Still have no idea how to make things private, public, or protected. In Objective-C you could hide internal details away in the .m file. In Swift, everything is exposed by default.

I think it just hasn't been released yet. It's part of the Known Issues section of Xcode 6 release notes[0].

[0] http://adcdownload.apple.com//wwdc_2014/xcode_6_beta_ie8g3n/...

[dzlobin]

I asked a Swift engineer named Greg about this yesterday at a Swift lab at WWDC -- he said that it is forthcoming, but gave no estimates or timelines. Exception handling, however, doesn't seem to be on the roadmap.

[joncooper]

Count me in the "happy to not have exceptions" camp.

[terhechte]

I asked an engineer too, and he said exception handling was planned. So that's that :)