Named parameters

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/25/15 6:32 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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);
>
> If Andrei weren't insisting that we use that idiom everywhere in Phobos,
> I'd honestly just be using bools and be done with it. It adds some
> value, but I seriously question that it's worth the extra verbosity. But
> regardless, I'd hate to see named arguments get added to the language
> just to clean that mess up.

Honest I didn't insist, and am a bit surprised that it did catch up. -- 
Andrei