From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T20:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Passive Arguments

On Sunday 16 January 2005 04:50 pm, Esteban Manchado Vel叩zquez wrote:
| Hi,
|
| On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:32:08AM +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
| > Since Ruby doesn't support signature-based method definitions, what good
| > does it do to throw errors on the wrong number of arguments? Seems to me,
| > this just makes the programmers job more difficult. What if Ruby nil'd
| > unspecified parameters and ignored extra parameters. Eg.
| >
| >   def ameth(a,b)
| >     a.to_i + b.to_i
| >   end
| >
| >   ameth         #=> 0
| >   ameth(1)      #=> 1
| >   ameth(1,2,3)  #=> 3
|
|    臓Arggh! Please don't. This is the Perl way, and I've had some good
| headaches because of this, while refactoring code.


Ouch, A Spanish expletive! :) Could you elaborate on the problem arising from 
refactoring? Thanks.