title: Does MATLAB support named arguments?
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/795823/default-arguments-in-matlab">Default Arguments in Matlab</a><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2775263/how-to-deal-with-name-value-pairs-of-function-arguments-in-matlab">How to deal with name/value pairs of function arguments in MATLAB</a>  </p>
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  <p>What if you need to create a function with tones of optional parameters. Is there a way to call that functions later on naming passed arguments for readability:</p>
  
  <pre><code>foo(123, and=456)
  </code></pre>