On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Lorenzo Caminiti <lorcaminiti@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:59 AM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
At Wed, 26 May 2010 17:59:14 +0400, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
named parameters were rejected years ago.
They were raised and dropped, but that doesn't mean they can't come back.
Yes, from "Design and Evolution of C++" Section 6.5.1: << Roland Hartinger's proposal for keyword arguments, that is, for a mechanism for specifying arguments by name in a call, was close to technically perfect. The reason the proposal was withdrawn rather than accepted is therefore particularly interesting... >>
Does anyone have a reference to the actual proposal from Roland Hartinger? (I could not find it on the Internet...)
I suspect Roland's proposal goes back to the days before documents were made available electronically. You might try to contact him - he was head of the C++ compiler construction group at Siemens Nixdorf, so you might be able to find him via google. Dave is right, bye the way. Today is a new day. Don't worry about stuff rejected years ago, although it does help to know what people objected too.. --Beman