From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-03-26T07:04:48+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 296: Destructive methods return self

On 2005-03-25, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> wrote:
> Csaba Henk wrote:
>
>> On 2005-03-23, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> wrote:
>> 
>>>We'll finally get keyword arguments in Rite and they're already in Ruby 
>>>1.9 as well.
>> 
>> Are they in current CVS? And how to use them? I didn't find any info
>> about it.
>
> Hm, I'm not sure if the support has already been added to def, but the 
> following ought to work:
>
> x(name: "Foobar", age: 100)

def x *a
  a
end

x(name: "Foobar", age: 100)       # => [{:name=>"Foobar", :age=>100}]
x(:name => "Foobar", :age => 100) # => [{:name=>"Foobar", :age=>100}]

Yep, it's not a big deal. This is just a not too useful syntax sugar
(those colons before the keys were not uncomfortable at all).

But, as you say, it's not finished yet. I hope at the end we get some
reflection (Method#has_keyword?(:sym) or something along this line)
otherwise it's just hype.

Csaba