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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CALL and named parameters
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 06:30:30 -0700
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On Thursday, August 7, 2025, Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> What's not nice is in the way it failed IMHO. I guess I persist it's
> not a user friendly message :)


Then write the error message you would have liked to see.


>
> Can you overload a function solely by changing an argument name?


No, the signature is only the name and input argument types.


> If not, as I suspect, then function lookup doesn't strictly depend on
> argument names (like in C++).
> So the function did exist, with the correct "signature" (ignoring
> argument names).
> And I was "just" using the wrong arg-name. That tripped me up.


How is it “just” an argument name when you are using named argument syntax?

David J.

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