C++ named parameters?

[JonB]

Browsing woboq (my only resource for Qt source code) I came across many occurrences such as https://codebrowser.dev/qt5/qtbase/src/corelib/io/qprocess_unix.cpp.html#713

And I thought to myself: "Wot? Named parameters?!". Since what version of C++??

Then I tried to copy/paste that line to post here, and found it shows as:

So the plot thickens! Clearly the source code is not really as shown, it does not actually have the "named parameters" in it, right? So this is some woboq-ism on presentation to confuse the gullible? What's going on?

[Pl45m4]

@JonB

You may find your solution here
(haven't checked all of it)

• https://woboq.com/blog/codebrowser-under-the-hood.html
• https://woboq.com/blog/codebrowser-introduction.html

I think it's a woboq code browser feature.

[JonB]

@Pl45m4
Didn't notice my specific feature in their links, but as you say it will be some annotation they add. I thought I (C++) was going mad! I have used woboq many times on many other Qt source files without seeing this aspect.

[Pl45m4]

@JonB

I think it's some kind of hint for the reader to understand the source code better without browsing the whole class.
Like:

in some class.h where someFunction(int a, int b, float c) is declared

void someFunction(int a, int b, float c);

and (if I'm correct) everywhere the function is used, on every call, the code browser adds the names from the header, so you know right away what this

// some code
// ...
someFunction(42, 42, 13.37);
// ...

means.

With the hint it looks like:
( imagine meaningful names there :D )

someFunction( [ a ]: 42, [ b ]: 42, [ c ]: 13.37);

Therefore I don't think it's C++ :)
Btw: I also like woboq to check Qt source code :)