Does D have too many features?

[SomeDude]

On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 05:25:40 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 5/2/12, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 
> wrote:
>> struct S { int x, y; }
>> S s = { 1, 2 };
>>
>>  I think we should remove
>> this feature.
>
> But not this, right:
>
> S s = { x : 1, y : 2 }; ?

Yes, these are named parameters.
Andrei's point could be made for just about everything that takes 
two (or more) consecutive integers, like a function signature, so 
I think it's a bit moot. Unfortunately, only named parameters can 
solve this problem, but then comes the problem of accepting both 
order of parameters and named parameters at the same time...