Re: Datatype and identity constraints proposal of the day (17 May)

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> was heard to say:
| Yet another minor issue.  Would it be better to have a *list* of named
| parameters rather than a set of parameters?   It's a tiny bit simpler to
| specify, in that there is no need to specify a restriction that no two
| parameters have the same name.

I don't see how making them a list removes the restriction that I
can't have two with the same name. (Unless your suggesting that they
be purely positional and names are irrelevant.)

In any event, I really prefer order-independent, named parameters.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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