From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-03-24T03:29:49+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 296: Destructive methods return self

Ben Giddings ha scritto:
> Malte Milatz wrote:
> 
>> That's something I encounter often, too. It' especially tiresome when
>> trying to figure out how undocumented methods work - or when I've
>> forgotten in which order arguments have to be given (example:
>> alias_method). Though extensive use of hashes as parameters would be
>> terribly verbose, it would be very easy to read, because it's easier to
>> know what is happening - provided that the keys used have got sensible
>> names.
> 
> 
> That happens to me too.  That's why I hope that with Ruby 2, Matz makes 
> it so that every method's parameters are named by default so for:

I agree with your hope, but notice that matz said more than one times 
that this won't happen. I'm not sure about the reasons (He did not 
explained them or I simply forgotten he did, probably the latter).