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Re: named arguments
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: named arguments |
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Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:43:35 -0400 |
2012/3/16 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> On 16 March 2012 07:53, Olaf Till <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm not aware of Octave supporting named arguments. There was once a
>> suggestion to support named arguments, but it has been disapproved
>> because of the risk of future incompatibilities with Matlab.
>
> I wish we could fix this. Named arguments are a huge convenience. Can
> you think of something better than this?
>
> http://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/no-named-arguments/
Oh, and here is my idea:
Introduce some sort of syntax in function declarations (maybe
something like Python's traditional **kwarg?) that will give you a
struct with the named arguments, so perhaps something like
function out = foo(bar, baz, **kwarg)
## ...
endfunction
Now if you call the function like this:
foo(1,2 "oh", 2, "hai", rand(3), "there", "lol");
then in the body of the function, kwarg will be a struct that contains
the fields oh, hai, there, with the corresponding values 2, rand(3),
and "lol".
This idea probably breaks Matlab compatibility in subtle ways, right?
I consider "Matlab compatibility" to be "if it works in Matlab, it
should work in Octave", i.e. the set of valid Matlab scripts should be
a subset of the set of valid Octave scripts. Would this work?
- Jordi G. H.
- named arguments, Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2012/03/16
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