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Question: How to pass optional arguments with repeated name

Question:How to pass optional arguments with repeated name

highsciguy 75 Maple
procedure parameter
March 29 2012
1

The following simple code

myproc1:=proc({parlist::list:=[]})
return parlist[1];
end proc:

myproc2:=proc(parlist::list)
return myproc1('parlist'=parlist);
end proc:

myproc2([1,2]);

fails with


 Error, (in myproc1) invalid subscript selector

The reason is that myproc1 has the optional argument parlist, which has the same name as myproc2. myproc2 seems to make a name from parlist when I use the quotes which is distinct from the identifier parlist of the argument of myproc1. If I change the name of the optional argument of myproc1 everywhere the code works. But is there no way of giving the same name to the arguments of myproc1 and myproc2?

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