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> it was a good idea to eventually make them a full-fledged feature Why so?

• gls2ro 3y ago
  Positional arguments creates a dependency on the position of the argument. And this is a cause of bugs when calling a method with the arguments in the wrong order. Keyword arguments remove the depedency on the position.
• vidarh 3y ago
  Because it provides a clearer way of enforcing calling conventions. Calling a method with the wrong keyword argument raises an error automatically. Calling a method with hash arguments the method expect replies on the method manually checking for unexpected keys. In Ruby as in other languages it was error prone.