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5733 :: Named Argument Bug?

• dataPulverizer (orginal) [2019-12-24T20:27:18+01:00] view original

  Why is this not legal code?

  
  proc printName(;firstName: string = "Jimmy", lastName: string = "Hendrix") =
    echo "First Name:", firstName, ", Last Name: ", lastName
  Run

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• Araq (orginal) [2019-12-24T20:40:20+01:00] view original

  Because of the (;, invalid Nim syntax. Named arguments are not separated by other arguments, they simply always exist.

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• dataPulverizer (orginal) [2019-12-24T21:00:27+01:00] view original

  Ah, many apologies! I saw it in the manual and assumed that it worked in the same thing as Julia.

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• dataPulverizer (orginal) [2019-12-24T21:01:52+01:00] view original

  I'll not make anymore assumptions and read more carefully.

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