Re: Arguments before or after command?

[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès)
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Hi Cédric, and welcome!

Cedric Sodhi <[email protected]> skribis:

> What doesn't quite seem to fit in with Lout being a clean, consistent
> language is how arguments are passed to @Commands . By which logic do
> commands take arguments { Before } @TheCommand or @TheCommand { And then
> the Argument } or even
>
> @TheCommand { And then } { multiple } { Arguments } ?

Actually, functions can take left, right, body, or named arguments (so
the above example is wrong: there can’t be more than one argument on the
right.)

Chapter 2 of the Expert’s Guide explains all this in detail.

Hope this helps,
Ludo’.
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