Order of evaluation for named arguments

[Timon Gehr]

On 3/30/25 23:04, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 March 2025 at 17:45:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> In principle I agree with you, but on a pragmatic note this will 
>> silently break existing code.
> 
> It will also silently *fix* existing code that was written under the 
> assumption that the spec was correct.

I am also just not a big fan of accident-driven language design where 
compiler bugs are codified into the spec.