Proposal: Named parameters for Java APIs

Language Design
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I’m not sure what you mean - it should work for all java libraries that were compiled with -parameters. Unfortunately the Java standard library is not compiled with that flag, as far as I can tell

> unzip -d . -j /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar java/lang/String.class

> javap -v -classpath . String | grep MethodParameters -C 2
Warning: Binary file String contains java.lang.String
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> javap -v -classpath . A | grep MethodParameters -C 2
   #8 = Utf8               flup
   #9 = Utf8               (I)I
  #10 = Utf8               MethodParameters
  #11 = Utf8               fancy
  #12 = Utf8               SourceFile
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      LineNumberTable:
        line 2: 0
    MethodParameters:
      Name                           Flags
      fancy
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