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From: Ivan Farlenkov <yo_99@mail.ru>
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Subject: Named arguments in C
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 21:53:48 +0500
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> I am a fan of being able to name parameters in languages that allow it. I am quite confident that this will never come to C.  It /might/ make it into C++, but as people have been writing proposals to do so for 20 years at least, I am not holding my breath.
You can sort of already do it in C by using designated initializers and macros
#define foo(A, B, C, ...) do{\
	stuct technical technical={\
		var1=default1,\
		var2=default2,\
		var3=default3 __VA_OPT__(,)\
		__VA_ARGS__\
	}\
	actual_foo(A, B, C, technical.var1, technical.var2, technical.var3)\
}while(0)