[Scilab-users] On parameters passing by name in scilab functions

[Tim Wescott]

Is this true?  Parameter passing by name is hugely useful -- they'd
have to re-write a whole bunch of libraries to make it work, and I'd
have a lot of stuff that would be instantly obsolete.

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 11:46 -0300, Adelson Oliveira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Let's take fft as an example.
> 
> In scilab 5 one could call fft specifying parameters like dim and
> incr by name,
> 
> fft(A,-1,dim=100,incr=1)
> 
> Codes that used to work in scilab 5 now gives wrong results (no error
> messages!) in scilab 6 because the new release ignores named
> parameters. To get expected results with scilab 6, one should recast
> the command above as,
> 
> fft(A,-1,100,1)
> 
> otherwise scilab 6 reads 
> 
> fft(A,-1)
> 
> instead!
> 
> What for ignoring parameter names? Also, I have some scilab codes
> where functions do accept names and take different actions
> accordingly. Should I 
> change all these codes to use scilab 6?
> 
> Thanks
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