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Added a description of "anonymous arguements" in methods.
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| Methods can be defined with anonymous arguments, where the value of the argument is not bound to a variable. | ||
| This pattern can be helpful for indicating that the behavior of the function with respect to that argument only depends on the type of the input and not its value. |
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Maybe wrap this line (I think generally lines should have < 100 chars, though I am not sure if this is a written rule; but it is certainly something the rest of this file adheres to).
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@fingolfin, are you or somebody else able to merge this PR? |
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Should we merge? |
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@KristofferC ok to merge? |
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Added a description of "anonymous arguments" in the methods section of the manual, based on this forum discussion:
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/defining-methods-without-binding-variables/112485
This PR chooses a name for the pattern of defining methods without binding values to variables ("anonymous arguments"), and it describes the use of this pattern.
Someone with a better understanding of the intention of this functionality should review this, as I'm writing it from the perspective of a user rather than a developer.