Pretty please: Named arguments

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 28/02/2011 21:38, Don wrote:
>
> But I still don't see the need for this feature. Aren't people using
> IDEs where the function signature (with parameter names) pops up when
> you're entering the function, and when you move the mouse over the
> function call?
> And if you really want to see them all the time, why not build that
> feature into the IDE?
> ("hit ctrl-f9 to show all parameter names, hit it again to hide them").

That's exactly the point I was going to make, as soon as I saw the 
question/challenge of "    HRESULT hr = m_Device.Present(null, null, 
null, null);

Quick: What behavior does that third argument specify?"

For such a fine grained and common situation, looking that API up 
anywhere outside the IDE (such as in a webpage, or in a file in a 
filesystem) in any serious development just seems to me very archaic. 
But hey, maybe I'm just spoiled by Java... :P

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer