From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2004-04-05T17:45:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposed patch to add SSL support to net/pop.rb

Hi,

  In mail "Re: Proposed patch to add SSL support to net/pop.rb"
    Sergey A Yanovitsky <hermit-jah@yandex.ru> wrote:

> >1.  Matz has already discouraged use of ":name => value"
> >style arguments.  So you must explicitly write it as:
> >
> >  Net::POP3.start(...., {:certs => c, :verify => v})
> >
> >Note that "a: value, b: value" syntax is not portable.
> >Ruby 1.8 has not implemented it.
> >
> Does that mean that ":name => value" style arguments will deprecate? And 
> is there other good by design ruby way to use named arguments?

Yes.  Its meaning *will* be changed to:

  m(**{a=>b, c=>d})

in Ruby 2.  "**" means hash expansion.  Matz stated this change
in http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/20040320.html (in Japanese).


Regards,
Minero Aoki