PROPOSAL: Named method parameters (original) (raw)

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sat Mar 21 10:34:08 PDT 2009

Annotations should not affect the semantics of any other language construct. I think if you want to add support for named parameters, the support should be available everywhere.

This is very difficult because so far, parameter names are an implementation detail and might differ across implementations (and within a class hierarchy).

Standard ML kind of solves the issue by having a lightweight syntax for constructing record values, and I wonder if this isn't the right approach to fit named parameters on an existing language.

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