From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-11-08T18:23:39+09:00
Subject: Re: value provided for argument with default value - how to check inside method?


"David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0411050855240.28112-100000@wobblini...
> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Jamis Buck wrote:
>
> > Ruby is known for it's position on TMTOWTDI.
>
> Hmmmm....  I always thought that a slogan for Perl, and at most an
> incidental state of things in Ruby :-)
>
> > Let's not discourage people
> > from exploring these other avenues. If an approach turns out to be
> > cumbersome, it won't be adopted. If it works well, people will use it.
>
> I think Robert was saying he finds it cumbersome and would not adopt
> it :-)  I'm not against experimentation either, but I wouldn't want to
> discourage critiques from experienced Rubyists either.

David, thanks for the "translation". :-)

    robert