From: "charliesome (Charlie Somerville)" <charlie@...>
Date: 2013-01-07T12:22:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:51281] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7662] Unable to define a method with bare `**`


Issue #7662 has been updated by charliesome (Charlie Somerville).


=begin
I think this is important for consistency. Consider:

  def f(a, b, **opts)
    # ...
    super
  end
=end
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Bug #7662: Unable to define a method with bare `**`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7662#change-35246

Author: wycats (Yehuda Katz)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
Category: 
Target version: next minor
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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