nemesis wrote:

> Actually, that example should be perfect for Python/Ruby and their's 
> named arguments.

Don't forget Smalltalk. (Although Smalltalk still requires you to write 
them *in the right order*.)

> 8 friggin' arguments is impossible to remember which 
> is which!  They beat both Haskell and Lisp hands down... :)

Yeah, actually _any_ function that requires 8 distinct arguments is 
probably a bad idea. Probably means you should be splitting it into 
several seperate functions, or joining some of the arguments up into 
more complex data structures, or *something*...

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