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Re:The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword... by barrkel on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:45PM (#23520149)
In the absence of keyword arguments as a language feature, boolean arguments should almost always be avoided, and replaced by enums where possible. Boolean arguments are almost always inscrutable at the call site.
Re:The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword... by skohan on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:59PM (#23520300)
Then it would be very convenient to have keyword arguments, as in the case presented by the previous poster