[swift-evolution] [Idea] Custom default names for arguments of closures

[Eugene Gubin]

Right now Swift provides shorthand argument names ($0, $1 etc) by default
which could be overriden with more specific names. I think it would be nice
to define our own default names as part of type definition:

typealias Closure = (first one: String, second two: String) -> Void

func executeClosure(closure: Closure) {
// the caller uses external parameter names, nothing changed here
closure(first: "first", second: 2)
}

executeClosure {
// the callee uses custom arguments instead of $0, $1
// also it is possible to override these names here as usual
print("one \(one) two \(two)")
}

This feature is backward compatible in that way what both

typealias Closure = (first: String, second: String) -> Void

and

typealias Closure = (String, String) -> Void

will provide the same behavior like now.

Possible applications: providing default argument names more meaningfull
than $0, $1, DSL-like constructions.

Possible problem: names could overlap. Nothing new. $0, $1 could overlap
too. Override argument names or variable names in a scope.
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