# Keyword argument types - what's going on?

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**Created:** [February 4, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyword-argument-types-whats-going-on/75778 "2022-02-04T08:40:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyword-argument-types-whats-going-on/75778/11 "2022-02-04T09:14:12Z")

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> [@FedeClaudi](#):
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> The only other solution I can think of is having both `n, p` as keyword arguments to a single methods that then behaves differently based on which one is used, but I felt that it wouldn’t be the most Julian way to do this, any suggestion on how do it better?

Yes I think t it’s better to have one method defined as e.g. `f(x; n=nothing, p=nothing)` and in the body of `f` check which argument is given by the user. In this body you can then dispatch the implementation to two different helper functions.

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