Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, First Edition

Named Function Arguments

Take a look at how you call the printPlayerStatus function, passing arguments as parameters:

    printPlayerStatus("NONE", true, "Madrigal", status)

Another way you could call the same function is:

    printPlayerStatus(auraColor = "NONE",
                      isBlessed = true,
                      name = "Madrigal",
                      healthStatus = status)

This optional syntax uses named function arguments and is an alternative way to provide arguments to a function. In certain cases, it grants several advantages.

For example, using named arguments frees you to pass the arguments to the function in whatever order you would like. For example, you could also call printPlayerStatus like this:

 printPlayerStatus(healthStatus = status, auraColor = "NONE", name = ...