A nice way to step into 2012

[Marco Leise]

Am 28.12.2011, 01:22 Uhr, schrieb Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:

> On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 18:43:14 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be great if Santa were to give us named arguments this year  
>> too?
>> :)
>
> Only if he hates me. But I guess that I'm in the minority around here in  
> that
> I hate the idea of named arguments.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Despite that feature being optional to use, I could understand you if you  
think it only makes sense on obscure 'true'/'false' flags and prefer named  
enums there. Then there would be two ways to do the same thing, which  
annoys language purists like me ^^.

(…, overwrite = true); vs. (…, CreateMode.overwrite);

But named parameters can do more, like skipping some optional parameters  
and using others.

int foo(int a = 0, int b = 1, int c = 2) {}
foo(c = 3);