On Thursday, 5 January 2023 at 23:31:36 UTC, Vladimir Marchevsky
wrote:
On Thursday, 5 January 2023 at 21:48:40 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote:
2. Using a constructor with many arguments.
```
A a = new A("Bob", 20, false, true);
```
This approach can construct arguments inline, such as during a
function call, however, the arguments are not labeled, making
it easy to get the order wrong or for the meaning to be
unclear.
Hopefully we'll finally have named arguments. Considering they
were accepted to language more than two years ago - maybe in
the next century...
Named arguments would definitely obviate this tool, but in the
meanwhile, this tool basically lets you achieve the same
objectives in terms of single-expression construction and clearly
labeled arguments. I guess one extra advantage of the `builder`
library is that you also don't have to bother writing a
constructor at all and can just use the default one.
