I know we are running out of special characters, but I really, really think that required named parameters are a natural fit for many common APIs.
Well... maybe, but ponder a likely common case--automatically redelegated initialization methods with classes that have parents written in languages without named parameters. (Like, say, all the rest...)
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Dan
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