[Pre-RFC] named arguments

Another interesting point of precedent is Swift. One particular point of interest is that they decouple external names from internal names, permitting more “fluent”-reading APIs. For example:

func increase(by increment: Int)
increase(by: 3)

This suggests an easy opt-in for Rust, since adding an external name is a requirement. Swift also mandates order and incorporates the argument name into the type (this is another point not necessarily addressed in this RFC: what happens with e.g., fn() types and the Fn traits).

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