Named arguments via struct initialization in functions

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 13:39:57 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 12:55:16 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
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> Thats true.
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> Yes.Ok.
> What I like about the :symbol notation is, that a string witch 
> is used
> only to distinguish between different objects in an Hash / AA 
> has a complete different
> purpose than a string used to be displayed for the user.
>
> I think that
>           writeln("Name", a[:name]); is easier to read, than
>           writeln("Name", a["name"]);
>
> especially if the structures are getting bigger, or you are in 
> a vibe.d jade template string where you would have to use 
> additional quoting to write:
>
>           a(href="a[\"url\"]") a["link_text"]
>
>           a(href="a[:url]") a[:link_text]
>
> May be I should get rid of this by using a struct for my mysql 
> results to display?
> (=> a.url and a.link_text )
>
> Just my 2 Cents :-)

If nested strings is what's bothering you, you can always use 
backticks. Or opDispatch(though I don't recommend it, as it tends 
to screw up compilation errors). But these won't let you have 
fields with different types, and since Voldemort types are so 
easy in D you are probably better off with structs.