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I do wish I had time to create a great data grid component from scratch, but I really don't at the moment. Since my back-end code is already Kotlin, it...

@minirop I agree. I often write one very general constructor and several small static (class) methods for constructing an object from different inputs. The way to think about the argument...

My guess is that it would be a very small change in any case .. as Wren already uses arity as part of the method signature. And the more static...

@mhermier One of the things I did not like about overloading in Java, which uses only arity and argument types, is that it not only did not provide documentation at...

Here is a taxonomy that might help clarify the options. It boils down to three questions: Should argument labels be part of the method signature? (That is different labels, different...

Just for fun, here are some examples of how other languages answer these three questions: ```ruby # Ruby - Argument labels are not part of the method signature. Default values...

I should mention also that there are perfectly fine languages that do not support argument labels at all: JavaScript, C, C++ and Rust. If you want to allow users to...