On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 13:45, Neal Becker wrote: > In read the julialang doc, I'm getting the impression that keyword arguments > are entirely distinct from positional arguments?
Yes they are distinct. Also note that keyword arguments currently carry a performance penalty, although that should change at some stage. > In python, all arguments can be used either positional or keyword. Julia is > more restrictive here? I need to decide a-priori if an argument is one or > the other? Yep. Note, you can also set default values for positional arguments.
