What the "in" keyword in Swift Closures means

Ever since I started programming in Swift if found the in keyword for closures a bit weird. It doesn't make much sense to me.
For example:

names.sorted(by: { (s1: String, s2: String) -> Bool in 
    return s1 > s2 
} )

Today I found this explanation by Joe Groff, one of the original Swift engineers:

https://forums.swift.org/t/history-why-does-closure-syntax-use-the-keyword-in/21885

TL/DR:
There is no real meaning in in. It was chosen for a lack of a better keyword.

I personally think about in as an abbreviation for input, because that at least makes sense when the return type is inferred like here:

names.sorted(by: { s1, s2 in return s1 > s2 } )

Comments

[Julius Peinelt]

I always a assumed that it’s influenced by the let-expressions in StandardML like

let
    val a = 1
    val b = 2
in 
    a + b
end

[Mario Nachbaur]

I've always assumed it means "these variables in this expression/block of code".