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

Yuxuan Shui yshuiv7 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 22:21:56 UTC 2019


On Sunday, 9 June 2019 at 07:55:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/8/19 3:58 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>> 
>> Reordering is definitely a very important feature. However, 
>> this proposal is not going to be the last DIP about named 
>> parameters, as is stressed in the proposal itself.
>> 
>> Generally, I think incremental improvements should be allowed.
>
> Sadly my vast and mostly unsuccessful experience with 
> programming language design is that such is not to be done 
> incrementally. Never. I will oppose a DIP that argues its 
> utility by means of possible future DIPs. (For measure, don't 
> forget I do not hold decision power any longer.)

Care to share your experience? Statements like this will be much 
more helpful when paired with the process of how they are reached.




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