Re: [stack] Parameters: ordered versus named

"William Tanksley, Jr" <[email protected]>
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Rodney D Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> So which is it?  Syntax or semantics?

Both. It's about mapping syntax onto semantics. That's what a
programming language does.

I do agree with you that I'm not sure about the significance of this.
The actual difference is limited entirely to the function call
itself... That's a tiny part of a language.

BTW, I'd say that as much as I like Smalltalk selectors, they don't
qualify for this: they can't be used out of order, and in fact they're
part of the method name, not the parameters.

> -Rod

-Billy
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