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Re: FINALLY: Another language adopts Smalltalk's keyword -syntax

Cesar Rabak

2007-12-22, 7:16 pm

Panu escreveu:
[snipped]

>
> The interesting question to me is, is it better to require
> a fixed order of keyword arguments or not? I'm inclined
> to think the former, but I'm open to all arguments in favor
> of the latter.

I think that the ultimate 'fixed order argument' will bring back the non
nominated arguments having they meaning totally given by their position
in the method (function, predicate, etc.) call as it happens in C and
Lisp, C++ and Java and even Prolog.

But then the argument of reading like English disappears...

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