Named parameters

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 09:41:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-07-24 23:04, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> The question is what problem does it solve.
>
> For one thing, it avoids the ugly hack which is the Flag 
> template and Yes/No structs.
>
> With Flag:
>
> string getLine(Flag!"keepTerminator" keepTerminator);
> getLine(Flag!"keepTerminator".yes);
>
> With named parameters:
>
> string getLine(bool keepTerminator);
> getLine(keepTerminator: true);

When showing code don't purposefully make it verbose to 
strengthen your case. Here is how Flag is usually used:

   getLine(Yes.keepTerminator);

Which is way more readable. Named parameters are not needed!