Pretty please: Named arguments

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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> On 2/28/11 7:53 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> On 01/03/2011 01:29, Bekenn wrote:
>>> On 2/28/11 4:50 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>>> But one way around that would be to support
>>>> parameter aliases, which would also confer a few more benefits.
>>>
>>> Interesting idea. I think this might solve Jonathan Davis's main
>>> complaint; could you give
>>> an example of what syntax for that might look like?
>>
>> I don't know, but possibly
>>
>> void setColour(int colour alias color);
>>
>> and with a possibility of deprecating old names
>>
>> int find(string haystack deprecated alias s1, string needle deprecated
>> alias s2);
>>
>> Stewart.
>
> Don't know about others, but I think this is exactly the point where my 
> "meh" detector goes off.
>

std.algorithm has far worse signatures. The main problem I have with the 
above is that it only solves a barely-existent "problem".