[swift-evolution] [Accepted] SE-0111: Remove type system significance of function argument labels

[Jon Shier]

While I can see why removing the labels from the type system would be a good idea, I don’t see why calling the functions with labels would be actively prohibited. That’s useful information for the developer to have, and if the compiler doesn’t know them in some way, you can be assured Xcode’s autocomplete won’t see them. 

> On Jul 8, 2016, at 6:35 AM, Goffredo Marocchi via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> I still say that this is the case where we do take a stand and do ask for this proposal to be blocked and re-analised, I cannot believe that we are going to be addingthis kind of incosistency to the language and take readability/ease of local reasoning (which Apple stressed at the last WWDC once again) away. The community and the core team just finished bikeshedding a huge change to how API's are imported and how labels are used and how important they are and then we do this?
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> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> Aw. It's really bad that labels are gone for closures at the call site 😢. IMHO, the same principles that encourage the use of labels for "normal" function calls should prevail here. 
> No need to feel bad — if I wasn't ignored (it's hard to notice if this happens ;-), the argument has been considered.
> 
> Additionally, those labels may return in the future — although there is a astoundingly long list of features that will be removed because their implementation is flawed, and whose fans have been calmed down with the argument that they'll be re-added in an improved form later ;-)
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