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

[Walter Bright]

It's clear that what should happen with named arguments and variadics is far 
from clear-cut. Therefore, the proper way forward for the time being is to 
simply disallow matching them with a ...

Nothing is being broken by this, as currently named arguments do not work at all.

If a decent design for it is developed in the future, we can always add it. But 
adding a design now that turns out later to be inferior or botched is going to 
be hard to remove. Just look at the trouble we have with alias this and 
autodecoding.