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

[Jonathan Marler]

On Sunday, 9 June 2019 at 19:43:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/9/19 7:27 AM, aliak wrote:
>> With reorderable, as Walter pointed out, what't the order 
>> (parameter-wise or argument-wise).
>
> Lexical order of course.

Lexical order of the definition or the caller?

So far we have 1 for the caller and 1 for the definition. Both 
seem to think their choice is the obviously correct one :)

   > Patrick Schluter:
   > They are in the order of declaration of the 
function...There's no reason to evaluate it any other order as 
the code generation requires that the caller populates the 
registers/stack in the order the function expects.

   > Paul Backus:
   > Personally, I think the obviously-correct choice is to 
evaluate them in lexical order (i.e., order of the call).