Re: Calling PL functions with named parameters

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Calling PL functions with named parameters
Date: 2004-08-14 14:36:20
Message-ID: 411E2364.5020204@bigfoot.com
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Oliver Jowett wrote:

> Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>
>> >>>> Oliver Jowett wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> David Fetter wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Dennis has pointed out that mixing the call-with-named-parameter
>> >>>>>> interface with call-by-order-of-parameters one would cause
>> confusion,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Python's equivalent syntax allows you to mix the two forms so long
>> >>>>> as all the by-position parameters come first:
>
>
>> I'm worried about:
>>
>> (1) foo( integer, float);
>> (2) foo( integer, integer, float a = 3 );
>>
>> which one is called with: foo( 2, 2 )?
>
>
> This is a separate issue to the one I was discussing above. I am not
> talking about default arguments at all here; I am talking about mixing
> positional parameter syntax with named parameter syntax.

I see.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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