[fpc-pascal] named parameter

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 27/05/17 10:20, Ryan Joseph wrote:
>> On May 27, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:> > someFunction(TPoint(X:0.0; Y:0.0));> > Pascal purists would probably object to that style, since what it's effectively doing is passing the parameters as an explicit list.
> I mentioned this form of “default constructor" as a sorely missing feature in FPC a couple weeks ago. Making redundant constructors for records constantly is pretty silly. If I could figure out the compiler code I would add this myself since it’s probably one of the easier things to implement.

End of last month actually, I checked :-)

I was on the periphery of that discussion, since I thought I needed 
something similar (but turned out not to). But you might have noticed 
some of the APLisms that I horrify Sven with on occasion...

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