You can have named parameters and backward compatibility with method signatures, Groovy does that [1]. Ok, it cheats a little bit because named params are actu

You can have named parameters and backward compatibility with method signatures, Groovy does that [1]. Ok, it cheats a little bit because named params are actually a syntax sugar for Maps. But other languages do the same (e.g. Python) and is very useful too. And if you can type check the map (as in Typescript) the functionality is equivalent to named params. [1] http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/#_named_parameters http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/#_name...