[CamperBob2]

It's just so frustrating that they keep adding things that scratch no itch I've ever had as a programmer, while leaving out incredibly obvious things that would make my life easier and my code safer.

Named parameters, for instance. It's insane that function parameters still can't be specified in any order with name=value expressions. That would have saved numerous bugs over the years, but apparently I'm the only one who thinks so. When a language such as C++ is harder to use than Verilog, somebody has screwed up badly.

[wbradley]

Here's a link to the named parameters spec. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n417...

[MaxBarraclough]

Named arguments are a good example of a simple feature that C++ still lacks, and cannot be effectively 'faked' without it being built into the language.

[BubRoss]

They can be faked to an extent with structs, but the reality of default arguments is that you have to be aware of them anyway so that you don't get behavior you don't expect. When there are default arguments you are building up assumptions and expectations that can become problems when they aren't right.