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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Named arguments in C
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 14:39:36 +0100
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On 04/07/2024 14:37, Bonita Montero wrote:
> Am 04.07.2024 um 14:49 schrieb bart:
>> On 04/07/2024 12:12, Bonita Montero wrote:
>>> Am 02.07.2024 um 18:53 schrieb Ivan Farlenkov:
>>>>> 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)
>>>
>>> What an anquated language that this needs macros.
>>
>> How do you do it in C++?
>>
> 
> With a inline-function that returns an auto to make the inner type
> accessible.
> 

I meant, what do you have to do to get named arguments in C++?

Is it more of a nightmare than in C or less?