this is almost a workaround for the lack of named parameters

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-03-23 16:55, John Colvin wrote:

> 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)

I've heard it was a big boost for C# when it got support for default 
arguments and named parameters. It made it a lot easier to integrate 
with COM.

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/Jacob Carlborg