[city41]

The downside to this approach is it often doesn't survive refactors. People change the method signature, update call sites, and often ignore the comments. Named parameters avoid this downside, it's a real shame named parameters are not more common in languages.

[emptysea]

Linters can check for this sort of thing, for example Error Prone[0] has a lint[1] for this.

Totally agree this is better to be in the language proper so we don't need this extra tooling.

[0]: https://errorprone.info

[1]: https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/ParameterName