Posted by Michael Sims on 01/13/05 18:20

Justin French wrote:
> Pretty sure this can't be done, but thought I'd ask any way...
[...]
> foo("cat","dog",("a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3")); or
> foo("cat","dog",{"a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3"}); would be nice (Ruby has
> something like this), but I'm guessing it's not possible.

No, can't do that. I'm used to stuff like that from Perl as well. It has been
brought up a few times on the internals list (check the archives for named
parameters or something like that) but has met with resistance so I doubt we'll see
something like this anytime soon.

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