Naming positional arguments at call site

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I suppose there are three things going on here:

  1. Some folks here want to be able to write functions (that is, literally write — as they develop the code) without worrying about the exact order of the positional args. Just the names are enough, in any order. You’d still need to look up/know the names, but you wouldn’t need to know the order.

  2. Some folks here want to be able to read function calls as being self-documented, even if the args already match the defined positional order. Comments, variable names, etc, can all do the trick, but, yeah, none are enforced to match the defined argument names.

  3. But either way, I fear this is a PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore thing. Making a change like this would drastically expand the surface area of every language and package API that’s ever existed in ways that weren’t necessarily intended.

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