DIP 88: Simple form of named parameters

[Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:20:20 +0000, Gary Willoughby wrote:

> On Saturday, 23 January 2016 at 14:19:03 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> This is mostly to prevent ugly hacks like Flag [1].
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP88
> 
> "A new syntax is added to be used when declaring a function that should
> be callable with named parameters:"
> 
> Please, no more new syntax!
> 
> This can be done using templates and Flag is not an ugly hack!

Okay, but only part of this has to do with booleans. Taking your proposal 
to its logical conclusion, you're saying I should write:

alias Typedef!(string, "key") Key;
alias Typedef!(string, "startDocumentID") StartDocumentID;
alias Typedef!(ulong, "limit") Limit;
alias Typedef!(ulong, "resultsPerPage") ResultsPerPage;

CouchPaginatedRange query(
  Key key = Key(""),
  StartDocumentID startID = StartDocumentID(""),
  Limit limit = Limit(ulong.max),
  ResultsPerPage resultsPerPage = ResultsPerPage(50),
  Flag!"includeDocuments" includeDocuments = No.includeDocuments) {}

query(Key("foo"), Yes.includeDocuments);

This is an interesting proposal, but I'll only ever consider it if Walter 
says we're never getting sparse named arguments.