I think it was a change from v0.6 to 1.0 that we use ; for extra named keyword arguments. Now I’m thinking this can be used to achieve some short hand notation similar to this: ECMAScript 6 and Object Literal Property Value Shorthand · ariya.io in Javascript.
What I mean in particular:
julia> function test(a,b; extra=1)
return a+b+extra
end
test (generic function with 1 method)
julia> extra = 2
2
julia> test(2,3;extra)
ERROR: syntax: invalid keyword argument syntax "extra"
julia> test(2,3;extra=extra)
7
I think the shorthand notation would be a nice touch to shorten some function calls and when using the ; as a separator there is no other meaning possible in my opinion.
What do you guys think? 