In our previous episode, Bernd Oppolzer said: > IMO, it's not about named parameters; > furthermore, it is not about readability, but this IMO > is a maintenance issue. > > Think about a procedure that has two parameters and a lot of callers > and you want to add a third one. > > it would be nice if you could specify a default value for the new > third parameter and don't have to change all the callers that use > only two.
Yes, that is why Visual Basic had it, but I thought the whole concept was nowadays considered old fashioned and baroque. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal