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frankus 59 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

I work all day in Swift (which makes you go out of your way to omit argument labels) and I'm surprised they aren't more common.

kevincox 59 days ago [–]

Yeah, this is one of the few things that I love about Swift. I think it gets it exactly right that keyword arguments should be the default and you can opt out in cases where the keyword is really unnecessary.

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