Pretty please: Named arguments

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/1/11, Bekenn <leaveme at alone.com> wrote:
>
> When reading existing code, can you easily spot the difference between:
> 	foo(1,,, "Hello World!");
> and
> 	foo(1,,,, "Hello World!");
> ?
>
> Unlike named arguments, I'd argue this syntax makes things quite a bit
> /less/ readable.
>

This syntax is used by Autohotkey, an automation scripting language.
It's not that bad for scripting (when you have an api reference on the
side). But when you're reading code you have to keep count of those
commas, and that's when things get ugly.