Re: Named arguments in C

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> This addresses a small part of it. Named parameters allow arguments to
> be omitted, and that requires also default values to be defined.

Probably, but not necessarily.  The languages I'm familiar with that
support named parameters also support default values, but a language
could easily have one without the other.  (I'm not saying that would be
a good idea.)

[...]

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