On Monday, June 08, 2015 23:18:50 Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > nim has both overloading and named arguments (with reordering and defaults > allowed): http://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html#procedures-named-arguments > and it doesn't seem to cause issues. > > Is there a document / thread that explains the argument against named > arguments in more details than 'do not play well together' ?
Probably not, but Walter was quite adamant when it was discussed at dconf that it's a disaster to mix named arguments and function overloading in the same language. Maybe it's not as bad as he thinks it is, but personally, I think that named arguments are a terrible idea in general, so I'm not about to try and support a position that tries to bring them into D. - Jonathan M Davis
