What is a good example to differentiate between fileprivate and private in Swift3

Question

This article has been helpful in understanding the new access specifiers in Swift 3. It also gives some examples of different usages of fileprivate

Answer 1

A practical rule of thumb is that you use private for variables, constants, inner structs and classes that are used only inside the declaration of your class / struct. You use fileprivate for things that are used inside of your extensions within the same file as your class/struct but outside of their defining curly braces (ie. their lexical scope).

    class ViewController: UIViewController {
        @IBOutlet var tableView: UITableView!
        //This is not used outside of class Viewcontroller
        private var titleText = "Demo"
        //This gets used in the extension
        fileprivate var list = [String]()
        override func viewDidLoad() {
            navigationItem.title = titleText
        }
    }

    extension ViewController: UITableViewDataSource {
        func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
            return list.count
        }
    }