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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/8/19 3:58 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> 
> Reordering is definitely a very important feature. However, this 
> proposal is not going to be the last DIP about named parameters, as is 
> stressed in the proposal itself.
> 
> Generally, I think incremental improvements should be allowed.

Sadly my vast and mostly unsuccessful experience with programming 
language design is that such is not to be done incrementally. Never. I 
will oppose a DIP that argues its utility by means of possible future 
DIPs. (For measure, don't forget I do not hold decision power any 
longer.) For named arguments, I very strongly believe that any DIP that 
does not allow reordering is a stillborn.