From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-03-16T06:01:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12697] Re: Keyword arguments?

Johann Hibschman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What's the status of the discussion of keyword arguments?  I found
> a thread in the mailing list about this, but I didn't find any
> conclusions or decisions.

I am not aware of that being in the todo list, I think matz will tell you soon.
But consider that keyword arguments can be emulated up to a certain degree by
hashes and special introduced syntax:

def method_with_keywords ( hash ); p hash end

method_with_keywords :key1 => "value", :key2 => 6565  #==> {:key2=>6565, :key1=>"value"}

 
> Keyword arguments are one of the things most glaringly missing from
> Ruby, at least IMHO.  They're wonderful, wonderful things, and it
> would be great if they could be made to work.

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Michael Neumann