From: Yusuke Endoh <mame@...>
Date: 2012-03-21T19:26:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:43523] Re: Arguments, assignment and pattern matching.

Hello,

2012/3/17, Ond?ej Bilka <neleai@seznam.cz>:
> I assume that arguments can be captured in Argument object. This gives
> us also multiple return for free.
> def foo(*a);a;end
> foo(1,2,x:1,y:2) # Argument[1,2]{x:1,y:2}
> [3,4,a:1,b:2]    # Argument[3,4]{a:1,b:2}


Interesting, but such a drastic idea requires many things:

  - advantages/disadvantages table
  - a prototype
  - contemplated semantics (there should be many corner cases)
  - a benchmark (it may degrade the performance)

Anyone is interested in working on this idea?

-- 
Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp>