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Re: Default arguments


From: Sean O'Rourke
Subject: Re: Default arguments
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:02:15 -0800
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"Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <address@hidden> writes:

>> It would also be better to be able to call foo like
>>
>>     foo(arg = 42)
>
> That could break existing code, though, because that's valid
> syntax now (set the local variable arg).

Right, but we can easily conjure some new syntax, e.g.

    foo(arg: 42)
    foo(arg => 42)
    foo(:arg 42)

/s



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