"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 2/28/11 7:53 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote: >> On 01/03/2011 01:29, Bekenn wrote: >>> On 2/28/11 4:50 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote: >>>> But one way around that would be to support >>>> parameter aliases, which would also confer a few more benefits. >>> >>> Interesting idea. I think this might solve Jonathan Davis's main >>> complaint; could you give >>> an example of what syntax for that might look like? >> >> I don't know, but possibly >> >> void setColour(int colour alias color); >> >> and with a possibility of deprecating old names >> >> int find(string haystack deprecated alias s1, string needle deprecated >> alias s2); >> >> Stewart. > > Don't know about others, but I think this is exactly the point where my > "meh" detector goes off. >
std.algorithm has far worse signatures. The main problem I have with the above is that it only solves a barely-existent "problem".
