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

[Olivier FAURE]

On Sunday, 3 March 2019 at 10:50:05 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> If API opt-in to named parameter support is not adequate, then 
> it's better to drop the feature request entirely, because it is 
> not reasonable to impose a big new responsibility like named 
> arguments on maintainers of existing codebases.

I think you're overstating how big the responsibility is.

Maintainers can still change argument names with the current DIP, 
they just need to keep exporting a prototype with the old names.