Language Design: Rust's Struct Initializer Syntax Was a Mistake

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Rust has distinct syntactic facilities for … invoking functions initializing structs and enums initializing tupled structs and enums … that provide different affordances and features: method arguments are positional and cannot be named initializer arguments are named, and what looks like positional arguments is a special shorthand notation initializer arguments for tuple structs and enums look…

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