From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-10-28T00:30:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40456] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #5474][Assigned] keyword argument

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 17:16, Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp> wrote:

> 2011/10/27 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>:
>> Yes, there could be a language with that kind of design. ��But Ruby
>> will not have mandatory keyword arguments. ��It is the design choice I
>> made already. ��Every keyword argument will be optional in Ruby.

> BTW, a current optional parameter will be deprecated?
> I don't like the feature because it is not extensible.
> Actually, I hate to see ERB.new(src, nil, "%") anymore!
> It now just complicates the language.

Agree!  This would clean up both the language and the implementation
and make for better APIs.