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On 11-Apr-06, at 5:38 PM, Taylor R. Campbell wrote:
I'd like to see some compelling examples that demand named parameters and for which alists of options would not suffice, perhaps for performance reasons or otherwise. In my experience I can't recall ever having found any good ones, really; do you have any particularly compelling examples where you found named parameters with this mechanism much more appropriate than any other mechanism, or than separate procedures to do different jobs?
I hate to say this but... SRFI-88 and SRFI-89 were submitted along with 2 other SRFIs which are good cases for the use of named optional parameters:
- Extensible hash table constructor - Extended portsCould you please wait for these SRFIs to appear and repeat the question if you still find that the examples given are not compelling.
Marc