DIP 1019--Named Arguments Lite--Final Review

[ixid]

On Friday, 23 August 2019 at 15:01:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Sadly I oppose it on the following grounds:
>
> "Named arguments proposed by this DIP have no effect on the 
> ordering of arguments in function calls."
>
> "Named arguments proposed by this DIP do not allow default 
> parameters to be skipped."
>
> These two limitations are as useful and help each other as much 
> as a nausea and a cough.

As Andrei said these are the two features I would look for in 
named arguments and this doesn't have either. It would be better 
to go back to the drawing board.