On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 5:29:42 PM UTC-7, David Roe wrote:
>
> Another option might be to force certain construction paths to use keyword 
> arguments.  For example,
> matrix(4,4,scalar = x+y)
> matrix(4,4,iterator = x+y)
> David
>
Indeed, but then: how is this more convenient than the following?

matrix_scalar(4,4,x+y)
matrix_iterator(4,4,x+y) 

A clear advantage of these forms is that no logic for parsing keyword 
arguments is required: determining which code branch to use is already done 
by looking up the function name. 

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