> I must say I like the idea of being able to write it the way you propose. > Sometimes we make a function only to be called once at a specific location, > more because of factoring out some functions for clarity. Been doing that > myself lately for scripting, and I think it'd increase clarity. However, > it's really alike to f(a, b, c), which does something totally different. It > -might- become something of a newb trap, as myfunc(*, a, b, c) would be > 100% equal to myfunc(*, c, a, b) but that's not true for the f(c, a, b) > case. >
I've seen beginners make the mistake of calling f(c, a, b) and being confused why it doesn't work the way they expected, so I think the newb trap might go in the other direction. If by "newb" one means "totally new to programming" then I think the keyword style is probably less confusing but if you come from a language with only positional arguments (admittedly most languages!) then the trap goes in the other direction. Of course, I don't have the resources or time to make a study about this to figure out which is which, but I agree it's an interesting question.
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