Yup, that's the API design tweak that QT recommends as well. But it's a lot more boilerplate, and that sort of boilerplate basically never happens for internal-

Yup, that's the API design tweak that QT recommends as well. But it's a lot more boilerplate, and that sort of boilerplate basically never happens for internal-only methods. Named parameters is basically the middle ground solution for the "quick" hacks that have a tendency to be rather permanent hacks.