Tutorial by Examples: arguments

Whenever a Python script is invoked from the command line, the user may supply additional command line arguments which will be passed on to the script. These arguments will be available to the programmer from the system variable sys.argv ("argv" is a traditional name used in most programmi...

The ** operator works similarly to the * operator but it applies to keyword parameters. def options(required_key:, optional_key: nil, **other_options) other_options end options(required_key: 'Done!', foo: 'Foo!', bar: 'Bar!') #> { :foo => "Foo!", :bar => "Bar!" ...

Consider this simple class: class SmsUtil { public bool SendMessage(string from, string to, string message, int retryCount, object attachment) { // Some code } } Before C# 3.0 it was: var result = SmsUtil.SendMessage("Mehran", "Maryam", "Hello...

interface ITable { // an indexer can be declared in an interface object this[int x, int y] { get; set; } } class DataTable : ITable { private object[,] cells = new object[10, 10]; /// <summary> /// implementation of the indexer declared in the interface //...

In JavaScript all arguments are passed by value. When a function assigns a new value to an argument variable, that change will not be visible to the caller: var obj = {a: 2}; function myfunc(arg){ arg = {a: 5}; // Note the assignment is to the parameter variable itself } myfunc(obj); conso...

local function A(name, age, hobby) print(name .. "is " .. age .. " years old and likes " .. hobby) end A("john", "eating", 23) --> prints 'john is eating years old and likes 23' -- oops, seems we got the order of the arguments wrong... -- this happ...

If you have an instance of a generic type but for some reason don't know the specific type, you might want to determine the generic arguments that were used to create this instance. Let's say someone created an instance of List<T> like that and passes it to a method: var myList = new List&lt...

Python has a variety of command-line switches which can be passed to py. These can be found by performing py --help, which gives this output on Python 3.4: Python Launcher usage: py [ launcher-arguments ] [ python-arguments ] script [ script-arguments ] Launcher arguments: -2 : Launch ...

When you create an argparse ArgumentParser() and run your program with '-h' you get an automated usage message explaining what arguments you can run your software with. By default, positional arguments and conditional arguments are separated into two categories, for example, here is a small script ...

Racket functions can also have keyword arguments, which are specified with a keyword followed by the argument expression. A keyword begins with the characters #:, so a keyword argument looks like #:keyword arg-expr. Within a function call this looks like (function #:keyword arg-expr). > (define ...

Python 3 allows you to define function arguments which can only be assigned by keyword, even without default values. This is done by using star * to consume additional positional parameters without setting the keyword parameters. All arguments after the * are keyword-only (i.e. non-positional) arg...

You can pass parameters to I18n t method: # Example config/locales/en.yml en: page: users: "%{users_count} users currently online" # In models, controller, etc... I18n.t('page.users', users_count: 12) # In views # ERB <%= t('page.users', users_count: 12) %> #S...

This is MATLAB's long-winded way of saying that it cannot find the function that you're trying to call. There are a number of reasons you could get this error: That function was introduced after your current version of MATLAB The MATLAB online documentation provides a very nice feature which allow...

The intent attribute of a dummy argument in a subroutine or function declares its intended use. The syntax is either one of intent(IN) intent(OUT) intent(INOUT) For example, consider this function: real function f(x) real, intent(IN) :: x f = x*x end function The intent(IN) specif...

When you create a function in TypeScript you can specify the data type of the function's arguments and the data type for the return value Example: function sum(x: number, y: number): number { return x + y; } Here the syntax x: number, y: number means that the function can accept two argum...

Example: function hello(name: string): string { return `Hello ${name}!`; } Here the syntax name: string means that the function can accept one name argument and this argument can only be string and (...): string { means that the return value can only be a string Usage: hello('StackOverfl...

Functions are objects in Julia. Like any other objects, they can be passed as arguments to other functions. Functions that accept functions are known as higher-order functions. For instance, we can implement an equivalent of the standard library's foreach function by taking a function f as the firs...

We can omit the argument in the call if that argument is an Optional Argument Every Optional Argument has its own default value It will take default value if we do not supply the value A default value of a Optional Argument must be a Constant expression. Must be a value type such as enum or s...

To create a function which accepts an undetermined number of arguments, there are two methods depending on your environment. 5 Whenever a function is called, it has an Array-like arguments object in its scope, containing all the arguments passed to the function. Indexing into or iterating over th...

K&R void* is a catch all type for pointers to object types. An example of this in use is with the malloc function, which is declared as void* malloc(size_t); The pointer-to-void return type means that it is possible to assign the return value from malloc to a pointer to any other type of ob...