As long as you can still provide an overriding value to only one of the 
defaulted parameters I probably wouldn't miss it.  I would hate to have to 
re-state the default value of all the parameters up to the one I want to 
change, though.

- Will

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Many people are surprised when they find out defaulted parameters can be 
> reordered, unlike required arguments. This special case adds complexity to 
> the language, and runs against our general trend of treating argument labels 
> as a significant part of an API's name, and preferring a single way of 
> writing API calls. I think it's worth revisiting this design choice—is the 
> special case worth the complexity? How many people take advantage of default 
> argument reordering?
> 
> -Joe
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