On 2014-03-01 15:19:29 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> said:
On 2014-02-27 21:43, Walter Bright wrote:
This comes up now and then. The problem with it is it makes function
overloading a near impossibility to untangle.
We could quite easy add support for named parameters but still require
using the same position of the arguments. I don't know if those wanting
named parameters would be satisfied with this though.
I did implement something like that in DMD a while ago as an
experiment. See the comments below that commit:
https://github.com/michelf/dmd/commit/673bae4982ff18a3d216bc1578f50d40f4d26d7a
Walter pointed out that it should work for template arguments. I
agreed, devised a plan to restructure the whole thing to be less of a
hack and make it works for templates, then I had no more time to put on
this. :-(
This planned restructuring did lead to a transition to type-checked
arrays within DMD though, so the effort wasn't completely wasted.
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Michel Fortin
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