Personally, and I say this as a happy user of Python, I dislike keyword
parameters. Note that in Python keyword parameters are (or should be)
seldom used for anything other than optional arguments. And if your API has
so many parameters that they need names the API probably needs refactoring.
Alternatively, pass a struct whose contents can be initialized using the
struct member names.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 6:04 PM Jon Perryman <jon.perry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you feel your GOLANG API implementations allows your API's
> and functions to evolve and grow? Personally, positional args has pissed me
> off for years when a proven simple solution has never been adopted by most
> Unix programming languages (except Javascript). Most notably, it's missing
> from GOLANG.
>
> Everyone here understands and uses os.open from the os package. For
> argument's sake, let's say os.open() is your responsibility to integrate
> nosql, memory files, compression, encryption, btree, key indexed files and
> more. How do you modify os.open( ) to integrate these file related
> features? This was solved years ago in languages not used in Unix
> using keyword arguments that also included positional. For example:
>
> func os.open(name string, memoryfile= bool, compress= bool, btree{
> btree_optons string }, encrypt{ key= string }, nosql{ nosql_options string
> } ) (*File, error)
> os.open('myfile.txt', encrypt{ key='abc' }, compress=true)
>
> The os.open args 1, 3 and 5 would be set from the specified arguments.
>
> Is this something that others need and I should pursue or should I just
> forget it? Proposal https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62078 was closed
> with "I don't see anything concrete being proposed here.". If I should
> pursue this, should I reword it or reduce it to this Email?
>
> Thanks, Jon.
>
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