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From: j-anthony@rcn.com (Jon S. Anthony)
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Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy.
Date: 29 Aug 2003 12:13:15 -0400
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"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk> writes:


> Actually, indirectly, you've also shown another example of a really cool
> feature of Ada
> 
> function blah(a : Integer, b : Float) : Boolean;
> ...
> blah(b => 1.0, a => 10);
> 
> It'd be so cool to be able to do this in other languages...


CL:

(defun blah (&key a b) ...)

...

(blah :b 1.0 :a 10)



/Jon