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TazeTSchnitzel on March 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into...

Any function with positional parameters can look awful taken out of context.

Someone1234 on March 25, 2015 [–]

Can you clarify what you mean? The three parameters are year, month, and day. Which I think is fairly intuitive.

The problem is not with parameter ordering. Year and day are literal, month is zero indexed. So you wind up with (month -1) representing the actual month.

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