# SE-0377: borrow and take parameter ownership modifiers **URL:** \ **Category:** Proposal Reviews\ **Created:** [October 25, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0377-borrow-and-take-parameter-ownership-modifiers/61020 "2022-10-25T17:38:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![1-877-547-7272](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/278dde/32.png) [@1-877-547-7272](https://forums.swift.org/u/1-877-547-7272)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0377-borrow-and-take-parameter-ownership-modifiers/61020/5 "2022-10-26T06:35:09Z")
This functionality is definitely needed for Swift, and it's good to see this being addressed. That being said, I don't really like the use of 'take' for this kind of modifier. It feels weird to me that `take x` would end a variable's lifetime, while passing `x` to a `take` parameter wouldn't. Additionally, as Dave Abrahams [pointed out on the last thread](https://forums.swift.org/t/borrow-and-take-parameter-ownership-modifiers/59581/130), function parameters are already described as 'taking': a function of type `(Int) -> Void` is described as **taking** an `Int`. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0377-borrow-and-take-parameter-ownership-modifiers/61020)._