DIP 1019--Named Arguments Lite--Community Review Round 1

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 16 February 2019 at 14:04:44 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> On Friday, 15 February 2019 at 14:23:06 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> Parameter lock-in is definitely a legitimate concern, but IMHO 
>> adding a neutered version of named arguments like this one to 
>> the language would be worse than not having named arguments at 
>> all.
>
> If someone doesn't like this, they can come up with a DIP to 
> deprecate the @named attribute in the future.

I don't think a DIP that makes the language worse should be 
accepted simply because someone, someday, may write a new DIP 
that makes it better again. And I would be very surprised if 
Walter and Andrei felt differently.