On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 2:22 PM Hani Deek via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> I have not studied this issue carefully, but I think that one simple way to implement your proposal without introducing new things into the language is to allow the following syntax

Your suggestion misses one of the most important parts of the
proposal: handling variadic templates and forwarding. Specifically,
the ability to forward designators through a function. Your
alternative can't do that.

Indeed, the only way to call such a function through forwarding is to
explicitly construct a parameter of the proper type, which requires
being able to *name* the type, which you can't do if you declared the
parameter in the function declaration.

So adopting this syntax basically makes forwarding impossible.