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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[ENH]: Expand `hist()` signature to support aliases and plural kwargs","articleBody":"### Problem\n\n#28073 added support for arrays on *edgecolor*, *facecolor*, *linewidth*, *linestyle*, *hatch*.\r\n\r\n#28873 noted that we do not support the arrays for the aliases *ec*, *fc*, ... We also do not support plural versions of these parameters *edgecolors*, *facecolors*, ...\r\n\r\nThis is a reasonable expectation.\n\n### Proposed solution\n\n- Alias support should be added.\r\n- I believe we should come up with a clearer general strategy on singular/plural versions of the kwargs. Some initial thoughts:\r\n  - Make a survey of which functions already support array properties and via which APIs.\r\n  - the singular versions exist as pass-through. They need to be supported anyway. We could (i) only accept singular values there or (ii) also accept sequences. (ii) seems the more user-friendly approach and is implemented in some APIs already.\r\n  - if we support plurals, we need to internally merge the single and plural variants, same with aliases. We likely should make helper functions for this. Can aliases be reused?\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/timhoffm","@type":"Person","name":"timhoffm"},"datePublished":"2024-09-25T09:29:51.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/28884/matplotlib/issues/28884"}