DIP88 Named Parameters, Status?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/01/2017 06:51 AM, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 01:54:24 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>> On Saturday, 30 September 2017 at 22:37:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Saturday, September 30, 2017 16:57:09 solidstate1991 via 
>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 30 September 2017 at 16:22:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > [...]
>>>>
>>>> What about DIP45, or making export an attribute? That would help the 
>>>> language to go mainstream.
>>>
>>> As I said, any DIPs on the wiki which have not already been accepted 
>>> are effectively dead, because the wiki is no longer part of the 
>>> official DIP process (not that there was much of a process before, 
>>> which was part of the problem). Whether any of the DIPs on the wiki 
>>> are a good idea or not is irrelevant. Any DIP that's going to be 
>>> accepted needs to go through the current DIP process:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs
>>>
>>> No DIPs are going to magically move from the wiki to github. 
>>> _Someone_ (be it the original DIP author or someone else) is going to 
>>> have to take the time and make the effort to do everything that's 
>>> required as part of the current DIP process, or the DIP will never go 
>>> anywhere.
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> Hoping that someone will chime in and answer the original question.  
>> It's likely that only Walter or Andrei can answer it.
>>
>> Is it a waste of time for me to put effort into renewing this DIP?  Is 
>> it dead on arrival or is there a chance it could be accepted?
> 
> If you're talking about DIP45, I think it has a good chance of being 
> accepted, as Walter had positive feedback after Benjamin's talk 
> (https://dconf.org/2016/talks/thaut.html around 38:00 on the video):
> 
> Walter (to Benjamin): You and I have argued about that export thing 
> before and I think you've made pretty compelling case for it. You know 
> what you're doing, so move forward with it and get it done.

Yes, we're up for that. We need a strong folow-up here (in the form of a 
formal proposal) from Benjamin and others interested. -- Andrei