From: "wycats (Yehuda Katz)" <wycats@...>
Date: 2013-01-07T07:06:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:51269] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7662][Open] Unable to define a method with bare `**`


Issue #7662 has been reported by wycats (Yehuda Katz).

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Bug #7662: Unable to define a method with bare `**`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7662

Author: wycats (Yehuda Katz)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: 2.0.0dev


This works:

  def foo(*)
  end

This does not:

  def foo(**)
  end

This does not:

  def foo(*, **)
  end

I use bare `*` often in combination with bare `super` to extend a superclass without being brittle to its exact signature. With keyword arguments, this seems like it will be impossible. I am opening several other related issues.


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