> >If only the first variant is allowed (with the named parameters in the > >order declared in the prototype), then this would not affect code > >generation at all - the designators could only be used for static error > >checking. > > > >If the second variant is allowed, then the parameters could be re-ordered. > > This is indeed very useful - Fortran has this since the Fortran 90 > standard, albeit without the dots (it's unambiguous in Fortran).
Right, same for Ada: foo (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3); foo (c => 3, b => 2, a => 1); Arno
