DIP 1019--Named Arguments Lite--Community Review Round 2

[aliak]

On Sunday, 9 June 2019 at 01:34:50 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 June 2019 at 18:05:43 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>> I see value in allowing a caller to omit arguments that have 
>> default values, but what is the value in allowing the caller 
>> to reorder them?
>
> Without looking at the documentation, which of the following 
> calls would fail to compile if argument reordering was 
> forbidden?
>
> spawnProcess("/usr/bin/sort", stdout: outputFile, stdin: 
> inputFile);
> spawnProcess("/usr/bin/sort", stdin: inputFile, stdout: 
> outputFile);
>
> From a usability perspective, it's completely insane for only 
> one of these to work.

Without looking at the documentation, what are the parameters of 
this function

blah(...)

?