cognitive psychology. PhD 
This was how you do things in ruby- there's special syntax for using record arguments as if they were named arguments.
But @jplubin pointed out to me that records don't curry like named arguments can- that's enough of an argument for me!
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Python is actually insane. You can do wacky bindings at both the call and definition. This is valid: def f(a,b,*x,c=0,d=0,**y): print(a,b,x,c,d,y) f(1, *[2,3], c=3, **{'d':5,'q':6}) It will print out "1 2 (3,) 3 5 {'q': 6}".
I know this because I once engaged in a Quixotic effort to statically analyze some Python code. It took me 130 LOC just to match arguments between call/definition in a function inliner.https://github.com/willcrichton/inliner/blob/29c53f6bf4c44e452c7bfd66e64743290cd74514/inliner/transforms.py#L32-L161 …
