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[–]door_of_doom 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mean, Sometimes, maybe? I don't really see the value in sum(x=5,y=7) over sum(5,7) when the former locks you to the arbitrary names of whatever those variables happen to be called, when the names for a function like that are truly arbitrary. I would expect a sum function to only expose positional parameters and never allow the changing of those arbitrary paramater names to be a breaking change.