Order of evaluation for named arguments

[matheus]

On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 18:58:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> ...
> Breaking existing code has repeatedly driven people away from D.
> ...

I'm not saying you're wrong but is there any data about this? - I 
mean after "n" breakages we had a decrease in numbers of users?

I pretty sure complains about breakages exists, as some 
developers leaved D community because restraint or DIP 
bureaucracy, but I think in the end most people would prefer a 
coherent language than another C++ one.

Will users leave because this broke up software or fell safe that 
it follows a pattern?

The problem I see with situation like this, is that we can't 
complain later when some streamer decide to use a language and 
show its problems for a large audience, and just after that 
people start to realize that we should have fixed this earlier.

Finally just tried C# and the same example given by Steve:

using System;				
public class Program{
	public static int x;
	public static void foo(int a, int b){
		Console.WriteLine("a: " + a + " b: " + b);
	}
	public static void Main(){
		foo(b:++x,a:++x);
	}
}

Prints:

a: 2 b: 1

So, arguments are evaluated left to right.

Matheus.