From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-03-16T07:39:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12701] Re: Keyword arguments?

Johann Hibschman <johann@physics.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Michael Neumann writes:
> 
> > 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"}
> 
> Why does that work?  I must have missed that in the specs.  That's
> crazy magic.  But it's pretty usable as it is.  It doesn't provide as
> much typo checking as, say, Python keywords do, but it's still nice.

I don't know about specs, be it's documented in our Language Reference 
chapter at

   http://www.rubycentral.com/book/language.html

Search for "Invoking a Method".


Regards


Dave