this is almost a workaround for the lack of named parameters

[J]

On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 12:14:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-03-26 10:31, renoX wrote:
>
>> Interesting, the "doesn't not support passing the arguments 
>> out of
>> order." can be seen either as a (temporary or not) 
>> implementation
>> limitation OR as a feature.
>
> I would guess it was easier. At least the change is very small. 
> Smaller that I would have imagined.
>
>> The things to check is how this feature would work with 
>> optional
>> parameters..
>
> Good point.

Tested this. Seems to work fine with optional parameters.

import std.stdio;
void test (int a, int b = 24, int c = 12, int d = 6, int e = 3)
{
   writeln(a);
   writeln(b);
   writeln(c);
   writeln(d);
   writeln(e);
}

void main ()
{
     test(a: 1,
             2,
          c: 9999);

}

// output:

$ ./namedarg_defaults
1
2
9999
6
3