I agree, although I haven't done enough work with languages using named parameters to really judge how inconvenient they can become in practice. It seems like

I agree, although I haven't done enough work with languages using named parameters to really judge how inconvenient they can become in practice. It seems like most naming issues could be alleviated by allowing the developer to provide aliases, this way you can change the preferred parameter name while still keeping the old one around for backward compatibility.