That was a good idea. Thanks!

I think that the syntactical overhead would be acceptable, I just have to put some more thought into it to see if there is anything I am missing.

Update: After giving it a bit more thought I think I will try a different approach. The extra square brackets does not conform with how people expect argument passing to be performed in Perl and some might therefore find it confusing. I will instead try an approach where the named arguments has must contain a special key marking it as an named arguments hash. Like this:

my_func( { key => 'value', ..... $NAMED_ARGS => '' } );
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I think that might be a better solution since people can pass parameters just like they normally would, but get the option of passing them by name if they are inclinded to do so.