> Javascript, > APIs often do something similar by passing in an object with optional fields* That's really not the same as the others though, as it's a conve

> Javascript, > APIs often do something similar by passing in an object with optional fields* That's really not the same as the others though, as it's a convention. That's arguing that passing a Python dict or Namespace to a function is the same as named arguments in the function's definition itself. You can do the same in Java with Dictionary<string,object> if you want.