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From: Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Named arguments in C
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 20:44:07 +0100
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On 02/07/2024 20:39, Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:
> 
> I searched around a bit, and it seems like a more common way to implement
> named arguments in C is with a pattern like this:
> 
> #define f(...) f_impl((struct f_struct){__VA_ARGS__})
> void f_impl(struct f_struct { int i, j;  char * k; double l, m, n; }
> f_params)
> {
> 	/* actual code */
> }
> 
> int main(void)
> {
> 	f(.i = 0, .j = 2, .l = 2.5, .k = "foo", .n = 4.2, .m = 2.5);
> }
> 

That's the kind of thing Bonita would write.
Horrible.