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Subject: Keyword parameters
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 13:32:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 17 13:32:51 1984
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Cedar will prompt you with a template that includes the parameter names
and parameter types.  I think this is available both in the editor and
in the direct-execution interface.

The Smalltalk-76 and -80 languages, as you know, have used what amounts
to keyword notation for many years.  Their environments don't currently
support prompting: it's not exactly clear what this would mean, since
there is no "procedure name" per se, you just write
	receiverObject keyword1: arg1 keyword2: arg2 ... keywordN: argN
and the concatenation of the keywords *is* the name of the operation
being invoked.