Re: Named arguments in C

On 03/07/2024 21:16, Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:

Richard Harnden wrote:
 

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.

 I assure you that i can write much worse code.  What do you say makes this
is horrible?

It just doesn't feel like how C ought to be, not to me anyway.
If you have named parameters, then you have to allow default values.
Then you have function overloading.
I mostly try to avoid function-like macros - this would force them to be everywhere - and the definition would be far away from the call.
I agree with Bart downthread ...