From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-05-26T07:18:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 23459-23562

il Tue, 25 May 2004 23:00:03 +0900, Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
ha scritto::

>  [Keyword Arguments]
>
>  * Syntax
>
>    def m(a, b=nil, *rest, c:val, **krest)
>      p a      #=> 1
>      p b      #=> 2
>      p rest   #=> [3, 4, 44, 444]
>      p c      #=> 55
>      p krest  #=> {:d => 66, :e => 77, :f => 88}
>    end
>
>    array = [4, 44, 444]
>    hash = {e: 77, f: 88}
>    m(1, 2, 3, *array, c:55, d:66, **hash)

Why do we need to make a distinction beetween named arguments and
positional ones?
Given that they will be considered Values can't we make Value both an
array and an hash?

I'm stupid and I really need to sleep, but why can't we handle this
just from the calling side?
 say:

 def m(a,b=nil,c=val,*rest,**krest)
  p a # 1
  p b # 2
  p c # 55
  p rest # [3, 4, 44, 444]
  p krest # {:d => 66, :e => 77, :f => 88}
 end
m(1, 2, c:55, d:66,3,*array, **hash)


This way we could take advantage of all the existing code, and 
 write stuff like:

 def f(a=10,b=20,c=30)
  return a,b,c
 end

 p f() # [10,20,30]
 p f(*[1,2,3]) # [1,2,3]
 p f(a:10,c:40) # [10,20,40]