Order of Parameters
In languages without named parameters, the order of parameters is necessarily fixed, since it is the only thing that the language can use to identify which value is intended to be used for which purpose.
With named parameters, it is usually possible to provide the values in any arbitrary order, since the name attached to each value identifies its purpose. A few languages such as Objective-C use names but require the parameters to be provided in a specific order.
Read more about this topic: Named Parameter
Famous quotes containing the words order of, order and/or parameters:
““New order of the ages” did we say?
If it looks none too orderly today,
‘Tis a confusion it was ours to start
So in it have to take courageous part.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“You listen to artists fighting with each other, competing to the death like gladiators, in order to see who is going to get into a show, who is going to make it, who isn’t: who is going to get a full-page ad and who is going to get a half-page. Then I think, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go off somewhere and just do your work?””
—Howardena Pindell (b. 1943)
“What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.”
—J.G. (James Graham)