Named Arguments - language feature

Example from 1 languages: Python

print("Hello", end="!\n")

# details: any parameter that hasn't been explicitly marked as positional-only
# can be provided as a named argument

Example from 1 languages: Ruby

String.new("abc", encoding: "utf-8", capacity: 16)

Example from 1 languages: Scala

"abcdef".slice(from=2, until=4)

Example from 1 languages: Kotlin

"abcdef".subSequence(startIndex=2, endIndex=4)

Languages with Named Arguments include Python, Ruby, Scala, Kotlin, USSR

Languages without Named Arguments include JavaScript, C, Java, C++, TypeScript, Bash, Rust, Haskell

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