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

[Jesse Phillips]

On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 03:33:26 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Once in a while, named arguments may be useful, but for the 
> most part, they're useful because a function has way too many 
> parameters, in which case, the function should have been 
> designed differently.

I've had the opportunity to design some methods relying on named 
arguments in C#. I've come to the conclusion that this issue with 
methods having too many arguments comes from parameters being 
positional.

I find the old advice to package it into a structure as 
pretending like you're reducing the number of arguments.

While a method with many arguments would indicate doing too many 
things, but I think as you move up in the call stack you have to 
add to all the different functionality you're trying to abstract 
away.