[Syntax] Default name for optional binding self and other properties

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This has been discussed many times in the past:

  1. Easy strongified weak `self` in closures
  2. Syntactic sugar for simplifying guards
  3. Pitch: Syntactic sugar for circumventing closure capture lists
  4. Proposal: weakStrong self in completion handler closures
  5. [Proposal Update 1] A simplified notation for avoiding the weak/strong dance with closure capture lists

IMHO it's not worth adding complexity to the language to save a few keystrokes in this scenario. The fact that you have to explicitly do this "dance" is for a good reason (clarity over terseness, which is important when dealing with weak/strong references).

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