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bobbyi_settv on June 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS ...

> why not use objs for named args?

Because then there is no way of conveying the order of the parameters. In this case, it's ambiguous whether the method we are calling is colorWithRedGreenBlueAlpha, colorWithGreenBlueRedAlpha, etc.

_f1dq on June 9, 2014 [–]

Order doesn't matter in the above example. In the method body you'd reference arguments[0].green when you wanted green.

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