Re: [Gretl-devel] Attention State Space Modellers!
Am 03.06.2016 um 14:19 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> (To be concrete, having named function arguments as
>> opposed to only positional arguments would sure inspire changes for
>> many packages.)
> There are no plans at present to introduce named function
arguments.
Besides, the systematic use of bundles makes the case for named
arguments much less compelling than it would have been otherwise. Define
your function with a bundle as argument and you're done. The difference
with named arguments becomes largely aesthetic.
At least it takes more LOC currently to populate the bundle with the
needed members than to pass the needed arguments.
But that's not the point here, it's not a feature request or a
discussion about it, it's about the new possibilities that such a future
change would imply, and that that might trigger another incompatible
rewrite of packages and add-ons.
-sven