Named Parameters (Was: A nice way to step into 2012)

[bearophile]

Timon Gehr:

> My point is, without named arguments you can improve the names at any 
> time. With named arguments, you are stuck and have to get it right upfront.

I think library code doesn't change argument names often, and when this happens I have suggested a way to deprecate argument names. Somehow Scala and Ada programmers survive to that :-)

Bye,
bearophile