Is there a way to have Julia automatically defining a constructor using keywords arguments? # the composite type struct Person name::String age::Int end # generates automatically this constructor: me = Person("Hugo", 24) # is there a way to define automatically # this constructor using only key…

Automatic keyword argument constructor

CameronBieganek March 27, 2020, 12:48am 4

There’s also Base.@kwdef. It’s very poorly advertised, though. It should probably be mentioned in the Constructors chapter in the manual.

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