YesOrNo: useful idiom helper or wanking?

KennyTM~ kennytm at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 09:07:55 PDT 2011


On Apr 11, 11 23:27, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> It looks like an awkward workaround for that feature called named
>> arguments.
>
> Named arguments aren't a part of standard D now, nor does it look
> likely they will be for many years.
>
> We've gotta look at the here and now to make decisions; focus
> on what we have rather than what we don't have.

Well the same argument was used to reject assertPred in favor of an 
improved assert which we still don't have (issue 5547). (Though changing 
assert's output doesn't change the D spec, while adding named arguments 
do, and the D2 spec is frozen.)


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