PROPOSAL: Named and Optional parameters, "Java-style"

[Florian Weimer]

* Frédéric Martini:

> * The "Builder pattern" is also painful to write and to use, and the
> documentation is separed from the method.

Another approach to named parameters would be fixing that.  For
instance, values of structural record type (named tuples) could be used
to emulate named parameters and would be quite useful independently.

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