DIP6: Attributes

[Ary Borenszweig]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 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)

What's the difference?