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

[Timon Gehr]

On 09.02.20 21:59, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/9/2020 11:51 AM, Arine wrote:
>> struct A {
>>     int foo;
>> }
>>
>> struct A {
>>      int bar; // renamed from foo
>>      deprecated alias foo = bar;
>> };
>>
>>
>> False equivalency, you have many tools at your disposal to deal with 
>> this for structs.
> 
> 
> C has it, too. Never heard a single complaint about it, either.
> 
> https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/struct_initialization

If you change the name of a field, code that accesses the field in the 
standard way also breaks. It would be rather weird if people complained 
specifically about broken initializers.