I'm talking specifically about the function calls, which are effectively the same in C, Rust, Python, Lisp, Haskell, and many others. No matter how terse, it's always some form of

<name of function> <value1> <value2> <value3> ...

The absence/presence of parenthesis and commas don't add anything of semantic value here, so that's not really what I'm referring to.

The problem is, is that the values often don't have any meaning attached to them, especially when they are literals. C++ codebases are pretty bad about this with boolean parameters, just having a random `true` at the end of the function call.

Variable names at the call-site are good hints, but we often pass the same variable to different functions, and the name doesn't exactly fit the meaning of each function. This is why I think requiring named parameters, at least by default, is better.