Named arguments via struct initialization in functions

[Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 11:06:13 +0000, ZombineDev wrote:
> The compiler should detect that this call is ambiguous and would not
> allow it.

It's a potentially significant amount of work to determine that the 
expression is ambiguous, or to disambiguate.

> To resolve the ambiguity, the user can write:
> foo(A{ x: 1 });

That's why I suggested it.

>> And you only need explicit type marking at the top level;
>> it's unambiguous after that.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "explicit type marking at the top level".

It always is unambiguous to write things like:
  auto a = A{x: {y: 1}};