On Monday, 12 October 2020 at 16:44:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
It's amazing how things come together before each conference.
Flag appears among my slides for an upcoming conference as
well! :)
But I don't think there is any solution to your problem.
On 10/12/20 3:24 AM, FreeSlave wrote:
> Later I realize that 'myflagname' is a bad name and I want to
change it
> to something else. But if I do so, I break the existing code
using this
> API as Flag with different name will be a different type
This is essentially the same as one of the objections to named
arguments.
Ali
Huh, never thought about named arguments in this way. Yet some
syntax for parameter name aliasing could be invented to refer to
the same parameter by different names if D ever gets named
arguments feature.
