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From: kvc@scgvaxd.UUCP (Kevin Carosso)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng,net.lang
Subject: Re: Time for keyword parameters in prog. langs
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Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 22:06:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 12 22:06:43 1984
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Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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Ada provides for "keyword parameters".  They are called named associations
(at least in the Young book).  Positional and named parameters can be
mixed as long as the positional guys come first.  For example, assuming

     procedure do_something (par1 : integer; par2 : string) is ...
then
     do_something (par1 => 6, par2 => "a string");
     do_something (6, "a string");
and
     do_something (6, par2 => "a string");

are all equivalent.

	/Kevin Carosso			allegra!scgvaxd!engvax!kvc
	 Hughes Aircraft Co.