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by AdieuToLogic 311 days ago
> Kinda. Except in OCaml this deficiency does not exist:

  Named arguments are allowed only for methods, not for 
  let-bound functions, function values, or lambda expressions.
True. They are different languages after all, sharing a common ancestor in ML[0] yet diverging for their own reasons.

Still, the original concern was identified thusly:

>> I do not understand how they could develop a language inspired by OCaml but not bring over labeled function arguments.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)