Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 02/03/2025 01:24, Keith Thompson wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 01.03.2025 23:20, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 21:32:59 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

My guess is that this form is just an informal syntax mimicking Perl's
function parameter passing ...

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The idea of passing arguments by keyword predates Perl.

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That wouldn't surprise me. - I know it from Perl. - Which other
(earlier) languages do you have in mind? - What's its origin?

 For example, it exists in Ada since 1983.  The following are all
equivalent, given that Foo takes integer arguments Arg1 and Arg2:
      Foo(Arg1 => 10, Arg2 => 20);
     Foo(Arg2 => 20, Arg1 => 10);
     Foo(10, Arg2 => 20);
     Foo(10, 20);
 The syntax is IMHO much nicer than using /*...*/ comments in C.

Does it have optional arguments with default values? IMO keyword arguments are much less useful without that feature/