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Having both approaches available would be better IMHO. Builder pattern is very nice but I frequently miss having named arguments too. Even if macros can partial

Having both approaches available would be better IMHO. Builder pattern is very nice but I frequently miss having named arguments too. Even if macros can partially fullfill that need, it's not the same and introduces more quirks and complexity...

Ygg2 4y ago
Problem with named parameters is that they make renaming function params a breaking change.
- metaltyphoon 4y ago
  Unless the IDE doesn’t support this refactoring? It’s ridiculously easy in C# and VS or VSC.
  - setr 4y ago
    A (public) library doesn't have access to all codebases depending on it.
  - Ygg2 4y ago
    Even there changing the method param will invalidate semver specification.
maxbond 4y ago
Fair enough.