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Description
In Julia 1.10-rc1:
julia> f(x, y, z) = x+y+z
f (generic function with 1 method)
julia> f(3,4 5)
ERROR: ParseError:
# Error @ REPL[2]:1:7
f(3,4 5)
# ╙ ── Expected `)`
Stacktrace:
[1] top-level scope
@ none:1
Contrast this with Python 3.10 which instead:
>>> def f(x,y,z): return x+y+z
...
>>> f(3,4 5)
File "<stdin>", line 1
f(3,4 5)
^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?
The error message of Python seems better, can we change the Julia message to something similar? Probably multiple dispatch makes this trickier though.
Indeed it was better in Julia 1.9
julia> f(3,4 5)
ERROR: syntax: missing comma or ) in argument list
Stacktrace:
[1] top-level scope
@ none:1