david(at)fetter(dot)org (David Fetter) writes:
> In article <Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)44(dot)0401251005300(dot)30205-100000(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> you wrote:
> >
> > I've been looking (and coded) a little bit on named function calls.
> > Calls on the form:
> >
> > foo (x => 13, y => 42)
> >
> > Implementing this means that the symbol => no longer can be defined
> > by the user as an operator. It's not used as default in pg, but I
> > just want to tell you up front in case you don't like that.
Is it really necessary to steal it? There's some precedent for special cases
in argument lists: "," is an operator in C yet it has special meaning in
function arguments.
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greg