Pretty please: Named arguments

[Bekenn]

On 2/28/11 9:07 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> One could argue the code is more likely like this:
>
>      int x = 1;
>      int y = 2;
>      int width = 3;
>      int height = 4;
>      ...
>      box(x, y, width, height)

Right, at which point you're essentially using named arguments anyway, 
except that here, a) it's not verified by the compiler, b) you've added 
stack or static variables (perhaps needlessly), and c) you're polluting 
the local namespace.