DIP6: Attributes

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:44:46 -0400, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar>  
wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> What I'd like to see is something like this possible:
>>>
>>> void foo (int timeout, string bar, float f = 4.0);
>>>
>>> void foo(int timeout);
>>>
>>> call!(foo)("timeout=5,bar=\"hello\"");
>>>
>>> Taking into account the default value of f, what the parameters are  
>>> named, and which overload to call.  I could certainly do it with C#.
>>  This is interesting. It means we'd need reflection for parameter  
>> names, which currently does not exist.
>
> Why do it with strings? Why not
>
> call!(foo)(5, "hello")
>
> with varaidic args?

Ok, say foo is:

void foo(string bar, int timeout)

-Steve