DIP 1019--Named Arguments Lite--Community Review Round 1

[12345swordy]

On Friday, 15 February 2019 at 12:56:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> This is the feedback thread for the first round of Community 
> Review for DIP 1019, "Named Arguments Lite":
>
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/23ef47a94e0fdd5ddc4b2f6b2f4dcfd3c1f43aa6/DIPs/DIP1019.md
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> All review-related feedback on and discussion of the DIP should 
> occur in this thread. The review period will end at 11:59 PM ET 
> on March 1, or when I make a post declaring it complete.
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I think named parameters should be opt-out rather then opt-in. It 
seems like a hassle for the developer to update your functions to 
support named arguments if it were to be opt-in. Making it opt-in 
for avoiding any code deprecation is simply not worth it. The 
benefit of readability by the callee greatly outweighs the cost 
of the code deprecation.

-Alex
  We have to take account of libraries that are rarely updated.