> … you focus on the specific example… That's the only way we can see whether what you claim makes sense. > … which leads to sources that are much more verbos

> … you focus on the specific example… That's the only way we can see whether what you claim makes sense. > … which leads to sources that are much more verbose than they need to be. We can see that for the example you provided, the Smalltalk style need not be "much more verbose" than the alternative you provided. Using positional arguments will be a little more concise than using keyword arguments, but only a little.