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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by kabes on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:04AM (#38189823)
Javascript has supported this for many years.
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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by Hasnep on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:01AM (#38190380)
It definitely hasn't, JavaScript doesn't even have named arguments.
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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by kabes on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:54AM (#38238260)
If you pass your arguments as an object they are named and you can rename them. So for all practical purposes that's the same thing.
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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by lpil on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @11:01AM (#38192282)
It doesn't have labelled arguments. It can roughly simulate them using an object, but there's a slight performance cost to doing so.
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