From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T00:48:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19942] Re: Proposal: Method#get_args

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:19941] Re: Proposal: Method#get_args"
    on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:44:50 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

||Matz, does this satisfy your initial concerns?
|
|I guess so.  I'd like to make sure two more things:
|
|  * symbol for block argument should be :block, or anything else?
|  * if you don't have a rest argument name, you will get [:rest], ok?

One more: 

> def foo(a, b = 1, *c, d)
> => [[:req, :a], [:opt, :b, 1], [:rest, :c], [:req, :d]]

what if the default value for an optional argument is more than a simple
literal?   :expr as Austine mentioned in [ruby-core:19882]?  Or drop
default values altogether?

							matz.