DIP 1030--Named Arguments--Community Review Round 1 Feedback

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 6 February 2020 at 11:29:59 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 February 2020 at 06:09:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> This is the feedback thread for the first round of Community 
>> Review of DIP 1030, "Named Arguments".
>
> What are the semantics on functions without named parameters ?
> They automaticaly create identifiers IIRC so can we expect this 
> to work
>
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> void foo(int, float);
>
> foo(__parameter1: 0, __parameter2: 0.0f); ?
> ---
>
> or would this be illegal ?
>
> Need spec.

I'de be in favor of this position: This should not work because 
the unknown name is specific to the compiler implementation.