Re: [Gretl-devel] proposal for a new function of the extra package

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: > (One pre-requisite for this would be to finally ban the use of "=" as > standing in for "==", otherwise it's next to impossible I guess.) > On the other hand, maybe the "=" itself would already be enough to > signal to the parser that it's a name: > myfunc(a=5) > This of course is basically like it's done in Python (and other > languages). I reckon that's the best way to go: an identifier directly followed by a single equals sign in an argument slot should be enough to designate uniquely a named-parameter construct. I'm not yet convinced this is worthwhile (I can see the benefit but I'm not sure it outweighs the cost), but I'm willing to be persuaded.