named argument

An argument that has a name that is predefined in the object library. Instead of providing values for arguments in the order expected by the syntax, you can use named arguments to assign values in any order. For example, suppose a method accepts three arguments:

DoSomeThing namedarg1, namedarg2, namedarg3

By assigning values to named arguments, you can use the following statement:

DoSomeThing namedarg3 := 4, namedarg2 := 5, namedarg1 := 20

Note that the arguments need not be in the positional order defined in the syntax statement.