alt Hacker NewsThis is an issue in Python but less so in languages like JavaScript that support "field name punning", where you pass named arguments via lightweight record construction syntax, and you don't need to duplicate a field name if it's the same as the local variable name you're using for that field's value.
That forces you to name the variable identically to the parameter. For example, you may want to call your variable `loggedInUser` when the fact that the user is logged in is important for the code’s logic, but then you can’t pass it as-is for a field that is only called `user`. Having to name the parameter leads to routinely having to write `foo: blaFoo` because just `blaFoo` wouldn’t match, or else to drop the informative `bla`. That’s part of the tension I was referring to.