Scala like placeholder for types

Thanks for the clarification.

Yes, I am meshing several ideas together here, and adapting them to Swift. Namely:
The ??? syntax
Some of the placeholder concepts
and some ideas from the Opaque Types Discussion

The main question is: Is this idea useful enough to be added as a feature by itself?

The answer might be no, and that is Ok. I wanted to see if it was something that people would find useful...