I think the choice to "name" all arguments (`from:`, `to:`, which if I recall from my bygone Ruby days is implicitly parsed as a single hash argument) goes a lo

I think the choice to "name" all arguments (`from:`, `to:`, which if I recall from my bygone Ruby days is implicitly parsed as a single hash argument) goes a long way to make things more consistent compared to having the first argument passed separately, making the colons a lot harder to parse visually due to the inconsistency.