DIP 1030--Named Arguments--Community Review Round 1 Discussion

[Manu]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:50 AM 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 10 February 2020 at 19:38:34 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 7:34 PM Jonathan M Davis via
> > Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >
> > I don't have any horse in this race... but I do just want to
> > echo that
> > I don't understand this feature at all.
> > I don't know what it's for. I've never felt I wanted named
> > arguments
> > personally, and Jonathan's criticism feels very real to me.
> >
> > [...]
>
> For me personalty, readability\reliability is a huge factor here.
> Knowing what values should go to where is a big plus for me, when
> dealing with default arguments. I work with C# code when it comes
> to web development, and the default parameters prevent me sending
> values to the wrong parameter.
>
> -Alex

That feels like a pretty washy justification.
Do you have an answer to my actual criticisms? I feel like generative
meta is one of D's biggest features and selling points, and making
that very difficult feels like a material loss.