DIP 1030--Named Arguments--Community Review Round 1 Discussion

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 10 February 2020 at 21:54:53 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Monday, 10 February 2020 at 21:41:02 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I was leaning towards favoring this DIP, as I frequently use 
> named arguments in R and like the flexibility they offer in 
> some cases. However, I came across two functions, written in 
> python, at work. One takes a parameter and the other takes a 
> slightly different parameter name. No good reason why these two 
> do not use the same parameter names. They should be the same.

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> However, python has named arguments for everything,

Nope: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/