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@@ -944,6 +944,11 @@ Once the parameters have been successfully bound to the arguments
 supplied by the call, the sequence of statements that comprise the
 function body is executed.
 
+It is a static error if a function call has two named arguments of the
+same name, such as `f(x=1, x=2)`. A call that provides a `**kwargs`
+argument may yet have two values for the same name, such as
+`f(x=1, **dict(x=2))`. This results in a dynamic error.
+
 Function arguments are evaluated in the order they appear in the call.
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