[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Make the first parameter in a function declaration follow the same rules as the others

[Trent Nadeau]

+1

Please, please, please! :)

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Our accepted naming guidelines have embraced first argument labels for
> functions and methods. This weakens our justification for making the first
> parameter declaration in a `func` declaration behave differently from the
> others, implicitly being unlabeled. It seems pretty clear to me we should
> make all of the parameter declarations behave uniformly:
>
> func foo(x: Int, y: Int) // Should declare foo(x:y:), instead of foo(_:y:)
> func foo(_ x: Int, y: Int) // Explicitly declares foo(_:y:)
>
> This would also make `init` and `func` parameters behave consistently,
> which is nice. There may still be hope for our keyword argument rules to
> one day be shorter than the Smalltalk spec…
>
>
> -Joe
>
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Trent Nadeau
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