Re: Scripting!

[John W Kennedy]

On 2014-05-01 00:21:04 +0000, Kevin Ingwersen said:

> Hey!
>
> To explain this subject just a little. I come from actual web 
> development - my roots are deeply in PHP. The only reason I ever 
> learned C++, followed by C, was due to the need to write a php 
> extension. But due to my C++ lectures, I came across objective-c, and 
> fell in love with its syntax, basicaly x). But this made me ask the 
> following question:
>
> Why is this not available in scripting?

As a rule, there's little point to it. If a scripting language /does/ 
have named parameters, it pretty much has to achieve it by passing a 
hash. So just pass a hash.

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John W Kennedy
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