Pretty please: Named arguments

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:33:28 -0400, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:

> Well, now we go back to discussion of the discussion of whether one  
> thinks it's worthwhile to use and IDE or not (for general development,  
> not just code reviews).
> I don't want to go into this discussion again, at least not now so soon.  
> I think that what we all may take from the discussion I was having from  
> Steven right now, and maybe everyone agree with, is that whether it's  
> worthwhile to use an IDE for code reviews is reduced to the discussion  
> of whether it's worthwhile to use an IDE generally or not. In other  
> words, if you don't do the tasks I mentioned before (looking up  
> documentation, compiling and running code, running tests. also, using  
> the source control system) from inside the IDE when developing yourself,  
> you will definitely won't want to use it when code reviewing, accepting  
> patches, etc..

Building on that, I'll actually put it another way:

Without netbeans, I would be twice as slow with php development.  Being a  
non-static language, with so many little quirks and annoyances that come  
with, I find netbeans' features essential (my most favorite is the recent  
ability to "type" object variables so you can look at the documented  
members).  In fact, I'd be way more likely to install a D for netbeans  
plugin than I would to install another IDE specifically for D.

But with D, I find the online documentation and included tools "good  
enough" for most development.  I'm also way more familiar with D's library  
than I am with php's.

I don't know if it's a good apples-to-apples comparison, but I simply feel  
no need to have an IDE to read D code.  I don't feel the same way about  
php :)  Having named arguments would add to that feeling of comfort, I  
believe.

-Steve

P.S. I've tried two D ides in the past for about 10 minutes (descent and  
code::blocks), could not get either of them to work right.  And it was  
*not* trivial to set them up.