Re: [Vala] Named arguments support

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Ivo Kosir <ivokosir yahoo com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> When I make a simple method with default arguments, and try to put named
> arguments like this:
>
> void bar () {
>     foo(c: 121);
> }
> void foo (int a = 5, int b = 5) {}
>
> valac outputs me an error: "Named arguments are not supported yet",
> does this mean it will be supported any time soon?

Hi,
no, it will not be supported any time soon as it's not trivial: named
arguments (arg=foo) will make argument names be part of the API.
While (arg: foo) is a shortcut for ("arg", foo).

Best regards,

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