Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
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On 01.03.2025 23:20, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 21:32:59 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
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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?

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For example, it exists in Ada since 1983.  [...]

The programming language Mesa had keyword arguments sometime in
the mid 1970s.

The job control language JCL had keyword arguments in the 1960s.