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RE: Named parameters
- From: Nathan Ridge <zeratul976 at hotmail dot com>
- To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>, Toon Moene <toon at moene dot org>
- Cc: David Brown <david at westcontrol dot com>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:23:02 +0000
- Subject: RE: Named parameters
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Note that a proposal for named arguments was recently presented to the C++ standards committee [1], and they did not seem receptive to it [2].
The proposal was for a different syntax (name : value), but the objections were not related to the syntax.
Regards,
Nate
[1] http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2014/n4172.htm
[2] http://theres-waldo.ca/2014/11/23/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-urbana-champaign-november-2014/ (see list of rejected proposals in section "Evolution Working Group")