From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T03:38:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword arguments in Rite

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> Hello everybody! I'm new to this list, so please don't flame me if what 
> I'm saying is absolute nonsense.
> 
> I was looking at the RubyGarden page about Rite 
> (http://rubygarden.org/ruby?Rite), and I starting playing around with 
> the keyword argument syntax. Basically, I think it's rather confusing. 
> Take this for example:
> 
>  a: :b
> 
> This would be the same as :a => :b. Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't 
> really shine through that you're assigning the value :b to the keyword 
> :a. I think this is much clearer
> 
>  :a = :b
> 
>  def foo (:bar = "bar", :baz = 123); end
> 
>  some_method(:a = 1, :b = 2, :c = 3)
> 
> It has the same syntax as variable setting, which I think is appropriate.

It looks better when you do something like this:

  document = make_document from: 'foo.txt', using: LaTeX

;)

> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Daniel Schierbeck

E