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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 06:28:38PM +0000, Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> If you came from the high level application level where the machine
> implementation is nothing more than a detail, you tend to don't care
> about the hoops the compiler/implementation has to go through to
> realize the abstraction the language presents (best example is the set
> types in Pascal where the elegance of 'if c in [a..z]' was loved by
> programmers, but resulted in an incredibly complex code).

Not disagreeing here, but couldn't resist the obligatory quote:

	People who are more than casually interested in computers should
	have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like.
	Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
	-- D. Knuth


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