[fpc-pascal] named parameter

[Mr Bee]

Hi,

As Pascal mostly well known as a safe, easy to read, and elegant language,
don't you think Pascal needs named parameter? I mean for ALL kind of
parameters, not just for Variants. When you have a function with many
parameters having default values, you know that named parameter is
desirable. For example:

function f(p1: string = ''; p2: integer = 0; p3: boolean = false);

But you only need to supply the third parameter, you still must supply the
first and second ones with appropriate default values, like this:

f('', 0, true);

while with named parameter, you can do this:

f(p3 := true);

I believe it would raise Pascal's code readability. I know it has been
discussed before. I know somehow the parser had been able to read such
syntax. So, why don't we have the option to enable it for people who want
it? Kinda a syntax switch mode.

What do you think? :)

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Regards,


–Mr Bee
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