Re: Named arguments in function calls

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401251005300.30205-100000@zigo.dhs.org> you wrote:
> I've been looking (and coded) a little bit on named function calls.
> Calls on the form:
> 
>  foo (x => 13, y => 42)
> 
> Implementing this means that the symbol => no longer can be defined
> by the user as an operator. It's not used as default in pg, but I
> just want to tell you up front in case you don't like that.
> 
> It's specified as => in the todo, and it's the symbol used by oracle
> in their pl/sql so I hope it's okay that I steal that symbol?
> 

You can't be stealing it if it's in the TODO :)

Oh, and Peter E, please consider putting a sock in the "No!" you
almost always pipe up with.  It's getting boring.

Cheers,
D
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