DIP 1020--Named Parameters--Community Review Round 2

[Walter Bright]

On 9/11/2019 12:18 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> But I need to confirm with you before I do this, is this for the replacement of 
> in place struct initialization syntax?
> 
> If so I want to solve that, but I need to ask you how you would want it done. 
> Since it touches upon .init, it makes me a little concerned because of dragons.

I'm planning to replace:

   struct S { int a, b; }

   S s = { 1, 2 };

with:

   S s = S(1, 2);

D is almost there already, but is missing the named parameter feature to go all 
the way.

I'm looking at other ways as well to unify and thereby simplify D.