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

[SashaGreat]

On Wednesday, 12 February 2020 at 07:42:32 UTC, aliak wrote:
> Named arguments is the difference between spending 1 second 
> looking at this:
>
> makeWindow(x: 67, y: 98, width: 100, height: 100)
>
> Or taking about 1 to 5 minutes depending on how easy 
> documentation is to find, and how bored you are to figure out 
> what this is doing:
>
> makeWindow(67, 98, 100, 100)

You're using an example in favor of a point, because it's hard to 
someone use constants for this kind of thing for a production 
code, at least for obvious reasons it shouldn't.

Now let's compare:

> makeWindow(x: 67, y: 98, width: 100, height: 100)

With:

makeWindow(x, y, width, height);

Of course 'x', 'y', 'width' and 'height' are variables defined 
elsewhere, but it's less noisy.

Now to be honest I would prefer for this particular function to 
use a struct like "myWindow" to define the coordinates:

makeWindow(myWindow);

I barely use name parameters for languages that support and to be 
honest I barely see than in other codes.

IDE are pretty much advanced these days, and if I need to check 
out at least in VS it shows me everything that I need about the 
arguments (Names, Types...).

Sasha.