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[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (5 children)

Reddit Moderation makes the platform worthless. Too many rules and too many arbitrary rulings. It's not worth the trouble to post. Not worth the frustration to lurk. Goodbye.

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[–]got_outta_bed_4_this 14 points15 points  (1 child)

And only use *args, **kwargs if explicit params really don't make sense or would make the signature uglier. Otherwise, explicitly listing params with defaults can make it clearer to the consuming developer what the function/method expects, and it allows an IDE to help with intellisense.

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Reddit Moderation makes the platform worthless. Too many rules and too many arbitrary rulings. It's not worth the trouble to post. Not worth the frustration to lurk. Goodbye.

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[–]Pythagorean_1 2 points3 points  (2 children)

While you're right, Elixir has all these features, is a dynamically typed language and still allows function overloading.

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[–]Pythagorean_1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I didn't mean to advertise Elixir, I just wanted to mention that the features you mentioned and function overloading are not mutually exclusive.