Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: positional vs named parameters Message-ID: <194@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 21:38:30 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.194 Posted: Wed Apr 11 21:38:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Apr-84 03:15:25 EST Lines: 4 Ada has both. Input-only parameters with default values are optional and can be ommitted in Ada; this works out nicely for named parameters. This should be continued in net.lang.