Positionargumentsarethemostbasictypeofargumentsinprogrammingandscripting.Theyarecalled"positional"becausetheirmeaningisdeterminedbytheirorderorpositioninthefunctionorcommandcall.Whenyoupassvaluestoafunctionorscript,thefirstvaluecorrespondstothefirstparameter,thesecondvaluetothesecondparameter,andsoon.Theinterpreterorprogrammatchestheargumentstotheparametersbasedsolelyontheirposition.Positionargumentsaresimplebutinflexible-youmustprovidetheminthecorrectorderandcannotskipanyunlesstheyhavedefaultvalues.Theycontrastwithkeywordargumentswhereeachargumentisexplicitlypairedwithitsparametername.Positionargumentsarecommonlyusedinfunctionswheretheparameterorderisintuitiveandunlikelytochange.
