From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-23T22:49:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Too many default argument values!

On Friday 22 October 2004 07:24 pm, Tim Hunter wrote:
| def text(text, x, y, dx, dy, rotate, styles)
|         # blah, blah blah
| end
|
| Here the last 6 arguments are optional! Since I want to use a consistent
| style among all these methods, I need to choose a solution for `text' and
| use it for `rect' as well. The simplest thing to do would be to (as other
| people have suggested) put the optional arguments in with the `style' hash,
| but I'm reluctant to mix both style and non-style arguments like that.
|
| Back to the drawing board. I'm going to review all the suggestions in this
| thread for illumination and advice.

Recall that I was having s similar problem. I took a page out of Rich Kilmer's 
work and created a couple self returning methods, so applied to your case 
something like:

  Rectangle.new(x,y).d(dx, dy).rotate(r).styles(s)

Such that
  
  def d(x,y)
    @dx = x
    @dy = y
    self
  end

  # etc.

T.