Named parameters

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 14:15:11 UTC, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
> Since D has optional arguments -- why don't we support named 
> parameters?  There are extremely handy and work beautifully in 
> languages like C#.

We've argued about this several times in the past. We're not 
adding them. They interact badly with overloading (especially if 
you try and add more overloads later), and they make it so that 
the parameter names are part of the API, which means even more 
bikeshedding and arguments about naming.

- Jonathan M Davis