From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T22:04:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword arguments in Rite

Hi,

In message "Re: Keyword arguments in Rite"
    on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:09:09 +0900, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> writes:

|Just one more question. I know you'll be able to write
|
|  def foo(a: 1, b: 2, c: 3)

Yes.

|But will you also be able to write it as
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|  def foo(:a => 1, :b => 2, :c => 3)

Perhaps, or you will get a hash as a last argument.

|Or maybe even (as I wrote before)
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|  def foo(:a = 1, :b = 2, :c = 3)
|
|I can see that the key: value thing is cool, but :key = value would also 
|be nice. It is also clearer in method definitions.

I just don't know how nice and clean it is.  It just seems to be
assignment to a symbol for me.

							matz.