Order of evaluation for named arguments

[Walter Bright]

On 3/30/2025 6:21 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> It might, but most folks don't even realize that named arguments are a thing
> in D, and most code doesn't rely on the order of evaluation of the arguments
> to a function. As such, I would expect that the amount of code that would
> actually break would be extremely small (and possibly zero).
> 
> Most bug fixes risk silently breaking some piece of code that accidentally
> relied on the broken behavior, and I think this is a case where the odds of
> it actually causing problems are sufficiently low that it's worth just
> making it all consistent - and the sooner we do it, the less likely it is to
> break any code.

It's a good argument, but we really have no idea how much code depends on named 
arguments. I'm also really tired of the vitriol we get when breaking existing code.