[swift-evolution] [Proposal draft #2] Naming Functions with Argument Labels

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

>>> It’s grammatically ambiguous if you don’t have the “:)” at the end
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>> Is it? It's not legal to pass a type name—`foo(bar: Int)` is not legal code; you have to say `foo(bar: Int.self)`.
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> "Grammatically" is key here: the parser doesn't know a type name from a variable name. 

Okay, but is it important to distinguish the two grammatically? A function call and a function reference are both expressions and can (types aside) both be used in the same places, right?

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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