On Wednesday, 9 September 2020 at 11:48:28 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 13:28:22 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I wonder if there is any way in which we could combine this
with strong typing of some sort (how?) to detect errors such as
int xcoord;
int ycoord;
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 13:28:22 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I wonder if there is any way in which we could combine this
with strong typing of some sort (how?) to detect errors such as
int xcoord;
int ycoord;
myfunc( x : ycoord, y : xcoord, color : blue )[3]
where the
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 13:28:22 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
int xcoord;
int ycoord;
You can define your own types, of course:
struct xcoord { int x; alias x this; }
struct ycoord { int y; alias y this; }
void myfunc(xcoord x; ycoord y, color c) {}
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 09:40:11 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 07:43:05 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I can’t remember, do Ada or Modula2 have something like
myfunc( x => 100, y => 200, color => blue )[1]
which has named parameters that can be passed in
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 07:43:05 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I can’t remember, do Ada or Modula2 have something like
myfunc( x => 100, y => 200, color => blue )[1]
which has named parameters that can be passed in any order.
[...]
I hope we have it this year or next year, as we
