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

[Paul Backus]

On Sunday, 9 June 2019 at 11:16:30 UTC, aliak wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 June 2019 at 01:34:50 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>
>> 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(...)
>
> ?

My point is not that programmers should be able to write code 
without ever looking at documentation, it's that programmers 
should not have to do mindless busywork that the compiler could 
just as easily do for them.