From: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@...>
Date: 2014-01-20T18:04:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:59896] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #9428] [Rejected] Inline argument expressions and re-assignment

On 2014/01/20 11:32, matz@ruby-lang.org wrote:

> As Nobu pointed out, it's too difficult (or impossible) to parse argument list.
> You should propose other way.  For example, some languages provide argument decoration like:
>
> ```
>    def foo(a:b)
>    end
> ```
>
> where implicitly calls `a = b(a)`.  Note that `:` is not usable for Ruby. It conflicts with keyword arguments.

Hello Matz,

Do you still remember the name(s) of such language?

Regards,   Martin.