Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5896?orig=1
Reporter: @paulp

@lrytz said (edited on Jun 11, 2012 7:22:00 AM UTC):
you mean to drop parameter names? i don't think that's a good idea. it's confusing that code with wrong names works. also remember that named arguments can be in any order, so just removing the names has surprising results.

i agree that we should have a better error message.

@paulp said:
That's true, working with wrong or ambiguous names is undesirable. This is a real bummer though. It dramatically improves the readability of calls into java, particularly for String and Boolean arguments. It would be great to at least open some way for motivated persons to take advantage of named arguments - I would gladly write a source transformer and run it over the whole source base, so wrong/ambiguous names would not be a big concern. The scala philosophy is ostensibly to not be so keen to protect me from myself that I can't do the useful thing I want to do.

@OlegYch said:
this may be significantly affected by http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/118

@paulp said:
Thanks for the link! I hadn't heard about that.

@paulp said:
Reopening as "suggested enhancement" so I don't lose track of it.

I've renamed the ticket, given http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/118, and since I agree that ignoring isn't a good idea

Is this ticket for more than this?

[nix-shell:/run/user/1000/tmp.eRjomaIrtO]$ cat J_1.java 
package x;

public class J_1 { public static void args(int x, String y) {} }

[nix-shell:/run/user/1000/tmp.eRjomaIrtO]$ cat J_2.java 
package x;

public class J_2 { public static void args(int x, String y) {} }

[nix-shell:/run/user/1000/tmp.eRjomaIrtO]$ cat S.scala 
package x

object S { J_1.args(x = 4, y = "foo"); J_2.args(x = 4, y = "foo") }

[nix-shell:/run/user/1000/tmp.eRjomaIrtO]$ javac -d . -parameters J_1.java 

[nix-shell:/run/user/1000/tmp.eRjomaIrtO]$ scalac -d . -cp . J_2.java S.scala 

[nix-shell:/run/user/1000/tmp.eRjomaIrtO]$ 

oh, fixed by scala/scala#4735 in 2.12.0 👍

sadly, as a comment on that PR says, "the Java standard library isn't compiled with -parameters" 😞