On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:40 PM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com>wrote:

> Walter Bright:
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>
>  * optional named parameters arguments (with simplest possible syntax)
>>>
>> This comes up now and then. The problem with it is it makes function
>> overloading a near impossibility to untangle.
>>
>
> Do you have an example of the problem?


Not sure what the problem would be. We could apply the same rules as for
template overloading, ie error when there's a potential ambiguity (or even
disable overloading for functions with named parameter until details are
ironed out). Many languages have this, for good reason (discussed, again,
many times).

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