DIP 88: Simple form of named parameters

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 24 January 2016 at 02:51:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 January 2016 at 14:19:03 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>> This is mostly to prevent ugly hacks like Flag [1].
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP88
>>
>> [1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#.Flag
>
> To be pedantic, this would be adding named arguments, not named 
> parameters. The parameters are already named, but mixing up 
> arguments and parameters is a common mistake to make, and folks 
> do frequently talk about named parameters with regards to this 
> sort of feature.

To be even more pedantic it is usually called formal and active 
parameters:

void f(int a) // formal parameter

f(3) // actual parameter