Passing function parameters in a non-sequential fashon

Question

Consider the function below:
function personal(Name:String,age:int,city:String):void
   trace(Name+" is "+age+ " years old and lives in "+city+ ".")
The parameters can only(???) be passed in the order they are declared in the function as shown below.
personal("John",40,"London"0)
If the order is changed as: personal("London",John", 40), there will obviously be a type related error (position 2 parameter is an integer).
Is there a way of passing function parameters as: personal(city="London",Name=John",age= 40)?
That way one does not have to worry about the 'order' in which the parameters are passed.

Answer 1

Micheal, I love such ELEGENCE.
One more question, before I 'attempt' to go to bed!
Below is code extracted from my main class definition.
Notice how I 'populate' the artist object  before I pass it on as a parameter to my saveRecord function.
It is rather clamsy, I think. Is there a better way of doing it?
import ARTISTS
var artist:ARTISTS = new ARTISTS;
artist.ARTISTID = 123678;
artist.FIRSTNAME = "Gordon";
artist.LASTNAME = "Brown";
artist.ADDRESS= "13 Darwin Street";
artist.CITY= "London"
saveRecord(artist);
saveRecord(params:ARTISTS){
     //Some code here