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

[Francesco Mecca]

On Friday, 15 February 2019 at 13:49:04 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> 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":
>>
>> [...]
>
> I'd add my library too as a possible library solution:
>
> https://github.com/atilaneves/kwargs

I think that the solution proposed by Atila is better for the 
following reasons:
1. it is a library solution
2. allows both the user and the author of a library to specify 
functions with named parameters
3. it is very lightweight

But it is not enough for the following reasons:
1. Works only on templates (I'd like someone to explain to me why)
2. Is opinionated about using ad-hoc types to represent data (the 
opposite of http://wiki.c2.com/?PrimitiveObsession)

If there is a consensus against primitive obsessions I think it 
would be better to solve point 1 and leave the decision to 
library authors to implement named parameters function or users 
to make their wrappers. This opt-in behaviour is not different 
from what it is provided by the DIP