I certainly wasn't arguing it was a perfect substitute for default args, just that it was easier to manage than the example you gave. The application I'm curre

I certainly wasn't arguing it was a perfect substitute for default args, just that it was easier to manage than the example you gave. The application I'm currently working on is mostly a direct port of Python code to Go. Python code I originally wrote. You needn't tell me it fails to accomplish all the things Python's default args do.