Re: Issues for named/mixed function notation patch

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> "However, a named variadic argument can only be called the way shown in
>> the example above. The VARIADIC keyword must not be specified and a
>> variadic notation of all arguments is not supported. To use variadic
>> argument lists you must use positional notation instead."
>>
>> What is the intended behavior? I think we should always require VARIADIC
>> to be specified regardless of using named notation.
>>
>
> maybe we could to support variadic named parameters in future - then
> using VARIADIC keyword should be necessary - like
>
> foo(10 AS p1, 20 AS p1, 30 AS p3) is equalent of
> foo(VARIADIC ARRAY[10,20] AS p1, 30 AS p3)

Pavel,

This doesn't make sense to me, FWIW. I don't think we should allow
parameters to be specified more than once. It's hard for me to
imagine how that could be useful.

>> I'm still reviewing the code.

Jeff,

When will you be able to post this review?

Thanks,

...Robert