From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-06-04T08:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 23566-23622

Hi,

At Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:09:59 +0900,
gabriele renzi wrote in [ruby-talk:102251]:
> >At Thu, 3 Jun 2004 02:33:44 +0900,
> >Paul Brannan wrote in [ruby-talk:102177]:
> >> But how would (a) work?  It seems like it would make the following
> >> ambiguous:
> >> 
> >> def foo(foo, bar=2)
> >> end
> >> 
> >> foo(:foo => 14, :bar => 92)
> >> 
> >> (is this calling foo with a hash and leaving bar with default argument,
> >> or is it calling foo with foo equal to 14 and bar equal to 92?)
> >
> >The former.  The latter syntax will be
> >
> >  foo(foo: 14, bar: 92)
> 
> Why we make a distinction beetween positional/default args and named
> args ? 

This is not that distinction, but between hash literal and
named args.

-- 
Nobu Nakada