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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:37:30 +0300
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:53:40 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

> 
> Still, the C++ crowd regularly try to figure out how named parameters 
> could be added to C++.  I think they will figure it out eventually.
> C++ adds a number of extra complications here that C does not have,
> but once they have a decent solution, C could probably adopt it.  Let
> C++ pave the way on new concepts, and C can copy the bits that suit
> once C++ has done the field testing - that's part of the C standard
> committee philosophy, and a good way to handle these things.
> 

I think that it's not mere "extra complications". Adding named
parameters to C++ is massively more complicated than adding them to C.
So, IMHO, if C waits for C++ then it will wait forever.
Not that I care. Named parameters are pretty low on my wish list.