'static func' as alternative syntax for ()->()

[toph42 (Topher Hickman)]

Is this asking for effectively the same thing as this, or is there a difference between this and a kind of exclusionary capture list?

Exclusive scopes that ban access to variables in scope

Context Swift programmers can currently use closures to embed a snippet of swift code with local variables whose scope does not allow access from the closure's parent scope. Of course, this allows programmers to conveniently reuse variable names in closures, as it limits the scope of local variables to only the portion of code in which they are needed. Consider a feature which works in a somewhat opposite way; instead of limiting the outer scope from accessing the inner scope, we limit the inn…