Julia has a really neat syntax for self naming of args, where
fn(a, b; c, d)
is the same as
fn(a, b, c=c, d=d)
rlang already has support for self-naming args in rlang::dots_list() and rlang::list2(). It would be great if R users could opt into the self naming args semantics to avoid spelling out some argument names twice.
I'm not sure what syntax would be concise, convenient, readable, and make it past the R parser.
Maybe something like:
Julia has a really neat syntax for self naming of args, where
is the same as
rlang already has support for self-naming args in
rlang::dots_list()andrlang::list2(). It would be great if R users could opt into the self naming args semantics to avoid spelling out some argument names twice.I'm not sure what syntax would be concise, convenient, readable, and make it past the R parser. Maybe something like: