this is almost a workaround for the lack of named parameters

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 22 March 2013 at 18:48:56 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
> so i hacked up a working solution yesterday.
> advantages over 
> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/mambo/blob/master/mambo/util/Reflection.d#L135:
> no need to no arguments at CT (just names); allows optional and 
> non optional ones; allows return value; also, mambo depends on 
> tango and is hard to revive.
>
> More later.
>
>
> see:
> https://github.com/timotheecour/dtools/blob/master/dtools/util/functional.d
>
> nothing to install, just call:
> rdmd --main -unittest dtools/util/functional.d
>
>
> auto s=callNamed!(fun,`x,y`)(10,20);
> given a function:
> auto fun(int x,int y=2,double z=z_val, string z2="asdf");
>
> Compile time errors will occur on duplicate param names, or 
> ones that don't exist, or ones that are not optional and not 
> provided (eg x, above)
>
> Feel free to contribute / comment

Don't have time to look at the code now, but it seems awesome ! 
Great leverage of language capabilities. Slightly different from 
my proposal, but I'm really not sure which interface fit best. 
I'm starting to think this should be :

callNamed!(fun,`x`, `y`)(10,20);

But I'm not sure of all the pro and cons.