Named parameters

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 09:41:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-07-24 23:04, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> The question is what problem does it solve.
>
> For one thing, it avoids the ugly hack which is the Flag 
> template and Yes/No structs.
>
> With Flag:
>
> string getLine(Flag!"keepTerminator" keepTerminator);
> getLine(Flag!"keepTerminator".yes);
>
> With named parameters:
>
> string getLine(bool keepTerminator);
> getLine(keepTerminator: true);

If Andrei weren't insisting that we use that idiom everywhere in 
Phobos, I'd honestly just be using bools and be done with it. It 
adds some value, but I seriously question that it's worth the 
extra verbosity. But regardless, I'd hate to see named arguments 
get added to the language just to clean that mess up.

- Jonathan M Davis