Talk:Named parameter

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Needs sources and/or external references; more expansion beyond C/Java/Smalltalk would be a plus. Grammar and presentation need work &emdash; the article needs to have a much more encyclopedic tone, and examples with similar syntax would be a welcome improvement (for example, a method call presented twice in the same language, once with named parameters and once with ordinary parameters). --bmills 01:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

There has been discussion on "keyword parameters" on comp.lang.fortran.

It seems that to some people "keyword parameters" are what are here called "named parameters". Others believe that "keyword" has another meaning and shouldn't be used with this meaning.

I have known them called "keyword parameters" at least since JCL and OS/360 assembler macros since around 1974, and I believe other systems and languages also use "keyword" with this meaning.

I would rather not get into the parameter/argument discussion, though.