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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy.
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:15:40 +0100
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:13:15 -0400, Jon S. Anthony wrote:

> "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)

Ok, languages I use...C/C++...smartarse! ;-P

Luke.