Steve Yegge's rant on The Next Big Language

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Jarrett Billingsley a écrit :
> "BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
>>> 13. Keyword and rest parameters
>> I'm not sure what this is
> 
> Keyword parameters are another thing found in python.  They allow you to 
> call functions with named parameters:
> 
> foo(x = 5, y = 10);
> 
> In python, the keyword parameters are interpreted as a hashtable, but since 
> D is statically typed, it could probably just map the parameters right to 
> the parameters defined in the function.  I'd really like to see this.

+1

When you think about it, the current function call where parameter 
passing is done by position is quite broken as shown nicely by memset: 
developers make so many mistake calling it, that some compilers 
integrated warnings when they see that the parameters are likely wrong..

IMHO when a function has two parameters with 'compatible' type, it 
should be called by 'keyword' to avoid hard to find errors.
Plus, this really improves readability, if a bit verbose.

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