DIP 1019--Named Arguments Lite--Community Review Round 2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/8/19 3:02 PM, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 June 2019 at 06:44:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 6/5/19 9:03 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> This is the feedback thread for the second round of Community Review 
>>> for DIP 1019, "Named Arguments Lite":
>>>
>>> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/9c9cc39246de4c449fe1e6cb6b27f7e426ff1eb9/DIPs/DIP1019.md 
>>>
>>
>> Things that I think would make this DIP stronger:
>>
>> * The presence of the feature in other programming languages belongs 
>> in "rationale" if also the rationale pertaining to those other 
>> languages is present. Otherwise it's argument by majority. Normally 
>> "rationale" would stand on its own (possibly using examples 
>> drawn/inspired from other languages) and mention of other languages 
>> would go in the "related work" section (which presently is missing).
> 
> Given that there are a fair number of programming languages that have 
> implemented named parameters, it might make sense to go a bit further 
> and provide a summary of the different goals and approaches that have 
> been used elsewhere. That would make it easier to compare the proposal 
> to related efforts. There may well be published papers that provide such 
> comparisons. A starting point list of languages with named parameters 
> can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_parameter
> 
> --Jon

Yes please!