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

[Arine]

On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 20:59:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/9/2020 11:51 AM, Arine wrote:
>> struct A {
>>     int foo;
>> }
>> 
>> struct A {
>>      int bar; // renamed from foo
>>      deprecated alias foo = bar;
>> };
>> 
>> 
>> False equivalency, you have many tools at your disposal to 
>> deal with this for structs.
>
>
> C has it, too. Never heard a single complaint about it, either.
>
> https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/struct_initialization

struct A {
     int foo;
};

struct A {
     union {
         int foo;
         int bar; // renamed to bar
     };
};


struct A a = { .foo = 10 };

False equivalency, you have some tools at your disposal to deal 
with this for structs in C.