In programming, arguments are the values that you can pass to a function when you call it. These values are used by the function to perform actions or calculations. Arguments allow you to customize the behavior of a function, making it more flexible and reusable. They can be variables, literals, or expressions.

For example, consider the following function that adds two numbers together:

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def add_numbers(num1, num2):
    sum = num1 + num2
    return sum

In this function, num1 and num2 are the arguments. When you call this function and provide two numbers as arguments, it will add them together and return the result.

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result = add_numbers(5, 7)
print(result)

Output:

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12

In this example, 5 and 7 are the arguments passed to the add_numbers function. They are used as num1 and num2 respectively, and the function returns the sum of these two numbers.

Arguments in a function are the values that we pass into the function when we call it. They are used to provide input to the function and modify its behavior based on different inputs.

Here is an example of a function that takes two arguments, "name" and "email":

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function sendEmail(name, email) {
  console.log("Sending email to", name, "at", email);
  // Code to send an email
}

// Calling the function with arguments
sendEmail("John Doe", "johndoe@example.com");

In this example, the function sendEmail takes two arguments, "name" and "email". When we call the function and pass "John Doe" as the name and "johndoe@example.com" as the email, it will print "Sending email to John Doe at johndoe@example.com" to the console.

By using arguments in a function, we can make the function more flexible and capable of handling different inputs.

Arguments of a function are the values that are passed into the function when it is called. They provide the necessary data or information for the function to perform its task. In many programming languages, functions can have multiple arguments, and each argument can have a specific data type or be of any data type. Arguments allow us to customize the behavior of the function and make it more flexible. Here's an example in JavaScript:

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function greet(name, age) {
  console.log(`Hello ${name}, you are ${age} years old!`);
}

greet('Alice', 25);

In the example above, the greet function has two arguments: name and age. When we call the greet function with the values 'Alice' and 25, those values are assigned to the name and age parameters respectively. The function then uses those values to customize the greeting message that is logged to the console.

kwargs is a keyword argument in Python that allows you to pass a dictionary of variable-length arguments to a function. It captures the excess keyword arguments passed to a function and packages them into a dictionary.

For example:

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def my_function(**kwargs):
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        print(f"{key} = {value}")

my_function(name="John", age=25, country="USA")

The output of the code above would be:

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name = John
age = 25
country = USA

kwargs is useful when you want to create functions that can accept any number of keyword arguments without having to predefine them. You can learn more about kwargs here.

Yes, you can do this by using parameters in your function. When you call your function, you can pass in arguments that match the parameter names you defined in your function declaration. Here's an example in JavaScript:

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function greet(name) {
  console.log(`Hello, ${name}!`);
}

greet("Alice"); // Output: "Hello, Alice!"
greet("Bob"); // Output: "Hello, Bob!"

In this example, the greet function has a single parameter called name. When we call the function with different arguments, we can pass in different names and get different output.

In JavaScript, functions are reusable blocks of code that can be executed when called upon. They are useful for encapsulating a set of actions and can be passed arguments to perform specific tasks. Here is an example of how to create and call a simple function in JavaScript:

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// Function declaration
function greet(name) {
  console.log(`Hello, ${name}!`);
}

// Function call
greet("Alice"); // Output: "Hello, Alice!"

In the example above, the greet() function takes a name parameter and logs a greeting message to the console using string interpolation. The function is then called with an argument of "Alice", which is passed as the name parameter to produce the output.

You can learn more about JavaScript functions in the following documentation:

• Mozilla Developer Network: Functions

In JavaScript, you can add parameters to an existing function by adding additional arguments within the function's parameter list, in the parentheses following the function name.

For example, the function function sayHello(name) accepts one parameter, name. The parameter name is used in the body of the function to print "Hello, name!"

If we want to add a new parameter age to this function, we would do so like this:

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function sayHello(name, age) {
  console.log(`Hello, ${name}! You are ${age} years old.`);
}

Now when we call the function, we must pass two arguments, a name and an age, e.g.

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sayHello("Athena", 19);
// Prints "Hello, Athena! You are 19 years old."

For more information, please see:

• MDN Web Docs: Function Parameters

When writing a program, you can send arguments to its main method as a list of strings. For example, in Java we could have:

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public static void main(String[] args) {
  //args is an array of Strings
}

For more information, see the official Java docs.