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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/13/20 3:30 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/13/2020 12:55 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Regarding renaming parameters will break the API. Swift supports 
>> giving a different name which are used locally:
>>
>> func copy(_ source: String, to destination: String)
>>
>> Should be called like this:
>>
>> copy("foo", to: "bar")
>>
>> `_` indicates that the argument can not be named when calling the 
>> function.
> 
> In D, we do:
> 
>     void copy(string, string destination);

And how does the implementation of copy use that first parameter?

-Steve