On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
From what I know most programming languages are more likely to adhere
consistency of function arguments.
Everything that allows default arguments, except pd, doesn't enforce one
value of default value, and instead require that a default value be
supplied. This is implemented in C++, Java (1.5?), Python, Ruby, Tcl,
CommonLISP, and a bunch more.
Words can be very vague, especially when you consider that many
programmers will be programming in a language that is not their native
tongue. So it seems quite difficult to be strictly adherent to the
words.
Maybe you'd like to study the case of Ruby. This is a weird language in
the sense that it's been written with English words by a bunch of Japanese
people who live in Japan and who use Japanese as their main language.
NotImplementError used to be the name of a kind of error. The Array class
has a method called "indexes". But in general it wasn't so much the naming
in the code that was bad... when I started 6 years ago, the manual was
saying things like "Instance variables are belong to the certain object."
But words are how humans communicate with each other, so the meaning of
the language should be given attention.
Right.
I personally feel that its not more linguistically consistent to have
[once] default open when it has no argument. But this is inconsistent
in usage with similar objects ([spigot]...).
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