Tuples a first class feature, manu's new unary operator and named arguments
12345swordy
alexanderheistermann at gmail.com
Fri May 8 20:38:00 UTC 2020
As I am working on the "Tuples first class feature" dip (will
uploaded first draft soon), I noticed that if we would allow this
in D:
fun((int x = 10, int y = 1, int z = 2)...);
Could this be used as a replacement for named arguments? It would
address the readability problem certainly. However it doesn't
address the default argument values that certain functions have.
I.E.
void sub(int x, int y = -1, int z) { ... }
if that were the case why not allow tuples such that
sub((int x = 0, int z = 0)...) = sub(0, -1, 0)
It will attempted to map tuple variables to function argument
based on the named values. Then I realize that it will ran into
the same issue with name arguments by default as that when the
function arguments name been changed it will break users code, so
no dice there.
Any thoughts on this? Right now, my dip is nothing more than much
needed syntax sugar for tuples.
-Alex
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