Re: Named Parameters Support

2017-07-23 Thread Paul King
I too would be interested in thoughts from anyone who has used Ruby/Smalltalk a bit more extensively. But generally, there is certainly more that we could potentially do. We could do various kinds of mapping during compilation of Groovy source since we have the names at hand - there is the issue

Re: Named Parameters Support

2017-07-22 Thread MG
I have used a lot of languages over the years, but I don't do Puppet in our team, so have not used Ruby myself, and have never programmed in Smalltalk. Could you elaborate on what named parameter features from Ruby/Smalltalk you had in mind ? On 23.07.2017 01:00, Charles Monteiro wrote: How

Re: Named Parameters Support

2017-07-22 Thread Charles Monteiro
How about the same support as languages like Ruby and Smalltalk provide ? On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 5:17 PM MG wrote: > Hi, > > having recently explained why Groovy is my language of choice got me > thinking about the few areas of Groovy where I personally wish for / see > the

Named Parameters Support

2017-07-22 Thread MG
Hi, having recently explained why Groovy is my language of choice got me thinking about the few areas of Groovy where I personally wish for / see the potential for improvement during my daily development tasks. I will start off with named paramters support, a topic that has been moving more