Discussion Thread: DIP 1030--Named Arguments--Final Review

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 00:37:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> We already have named arguments in D since the very beginning - 
> the struct initialization syntax.

The key insight! Right, we always has that.
>
> This is similar to:
>
> 1. what happens if the implementer changes the types of the 
> parameters?
>
> 2. what happens if the implementer changes the order of the 
> parameters?
>
> Then user code breaks.
>
> If anything, this feature will motivate implementers to take 
> some care to name the parameters appropriately.