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example from kotlin:

```features {
  specialFeature(option1 = true, option2 = true)
}```
then from groovy it just ends up being kind of a mess with context-less booleans

```features {
  specialFeature(true, true)
}```
is there a way to get named parameters in groovy? or would the recommendation be to turn this into a closure for something more like this?

```features {
  specialFeature {
    option1 = true
    option2 = true
  }
}```

breaking it down to avoid named parameters works (just did this elsewhere to Kotlin / Groovy)

"Named parameters" in Groovy are achieved through a java.util.Map as the first argument: <https://groovy-lang.org/objectorientation.html#_named_parameters_2>

ah interesting. so the IDE couldn’t help, but it would appear as if there were named params

not that the IDE really helps with groovy anyway

although what i was trying to avoid with the closure is missing required arguments, and i guess taking a map doesn’t solve that problem either

In any case, you'd have to handle that from your code and throw an exception.

yeah, fair enough. i wish build.gradle.kts files were handled better so kotlin could just do this for us :confused:

I use @JvmOverloads for default values in a constructor, but maybe it's not needed