Function with default parameters

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 17 15:40:16 PDT 2010


On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:37:09 -0400, Mariusz Gliwiński  
<alienballance at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just could promise I've seen in D2 something like in scripting  
> languages:
>
> module test;
>
> void main (string[] args) {
>       test(b = "test");
> }
>
> void test(string a = "a", string b = "b", string c = "c") {
> }
>
> Basically picking just right parameter while other have default. But now  
> I can't find syntax anywhere. This code didn't worked, could you refresh  
> my memory?

D parameters don't work this way.  You cannot specify a parameter by name.

There are tricks you can use, such as structs with initializers, but the  
result is probably not what you want.

-Steve


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