On Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 15:00:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
foobar:
Code that needs named parameters to be more readable is poorly
designed code in the first place.
Have you used a language where the usage of named arguments is
idiomatic, like Python, Scala or Ada? They are sometimes useful
even for well designed code, like functions with two arguments.
Bye,
bearophile
A simple example is matplotlib.pyplot.plot
There are so many possible flags and parameters that can be
passed in order to get the exact behaviour you want, but commonly
you'll only want a few set for each call. You don't want to have
to set all the other preceding parameters, you just want to go
e.g. plot(data, linewidth=5)
