DIP 1019--Named Arguments Lite--Final Review

[Olivier FAURE]

On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 09:37:13 UTC, nkm1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 09:00:08 UTC, Olivier FAURE 
> wrote:
>> With all that said, I still think the way Andrei asked "well 
>> why didn't you just use Walter's version and ignore everything 
>> else?" is a little presumptuous.
>
> Well, it's not just because Walter proposed that. It's also 
> because his proposal is the most obvious one. There is already 
> designated initialization syntax for arrays and structs, so 
> having something different for parameters to a function 
> requires, at least, some justification. Espectially considering 
> the fact that some programming languages don't have named 
> parameters and instead use associative arrays literals (Perl, 
> Lua).

I don't think it's obvious. There's trade-offs to consider, that 
people have spent pages debating.