I just want to point out that this is a feature in my eyes, not a bug. It's very useful as a keyword override when splatting keywords.
On Sunday, June 12, 2016, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimi...@club.fr> wrote: > Le samedi 11 juin 2016 à 19:46 -0700, colintbow...@gmail.com > <javascript:;> a écrit : > > I can enter the same keyword argument twice, and the second entry is > > the one that gets used. A short example follows: > > > > f(x::Int ; kw::Int=0) = x * kw > > f(2) > > f(2, kw=3) #evaluates to 6 > > f(2, kw=3, kw=4) #evaluates to 8 > > > > Is this desired behaviour or is it a bug? Based on a quick scan, I > > can't quite tell if this is the same bug as issue 9535 > > (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9535), so thought I would > > post here before filing anything. Also, I'm on v0.4, so I don't want > > to file if this is already taken care of in v0.5. > It also happens on 0.5. This sounds like a different (and simpler) bug > than #9535, so filing a new issue would likely be useful. Even if it > was done on purpose, the manual doesn't seem to mention it. > > > Regards >
