Pretty please: Named arguments

[spir]

On 02/28/2011 07:56 PM, bearophile wrote:
> spir:
>
>> Yes, I'm aware of that. This usage in fact conflicts with the general
>> "subtyping" semantics of ':'. But this conflict already exists with the usage
>> of ':' in dyn array notation, which is linguistically pretty close to a named
>> argument set; so...
>
> If I have understood what you mean here, then I think we'll just have to leave with this small clash. An alternative solution is to use the Ada syntax: foo(x =>  1, y=>2) but it's a bit longer because it requires two chars instead of one.

Agreed, and I'm not for adding non-obvious "signs". D is not Perl. Or else use 
':=' ?

Denis
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