Simultaneous dispatch on positional and keyword arguments just seems nuts. Jeff and I spent a lot of time talking about that and could never come up with anything that seemed sane or comprehensible, so it ended up being what it is now. Another option would be to dispatch on positional arguments first and *then* as a separate step do some kind of dispatch on keyword arguments, implicitly made positional.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Kevin Squire <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that was considered, but was never implemented. Best I could find is > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/485#issuecomment-15848966. > > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Toivo Henningsson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I believe it was considered at some point to let dispatch distinguish >> between functions taking keyword arguments and functions taking no keyword >> arguments? >> > >
