From: Johann Hibschman <johann@...>
Date: 2001-03-16T09:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12703] Re: Keyword arguments?

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

>> 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

Again, kudos to you for that resource.  But, well, seeing as this is a
pretty fundamental part of the syntax, it would be nice if it were
documented in the 'official' documentation.  I know that document
dates from 1.4, but it would be nice if either the documentation were
updated or your book was linked to as 'official documentation'.

Sigh.  I guess I'm just grumbling at having 90% of my problem solved
already and yet being entirely unaware of it.

perhaps-matz-is-borrowing-guido's-time-machine-ly yours,

--J

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Johann Hibschman                           johann@physics.berkeley.edu