From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T23:13:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Garden RubyNuby Question on parameters in blocks vs. methods

On Apr 6, 2005 4:11 AM, Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As for the first. Why not "do (a,b) ... end" instead of "do |a,b| ...
> > end" Well, without thinking about it to much, I imagine it is simply
> > due to syntax ambiguities.
> 
> I've wondered about this one before. It would be _possible_ to change
> the method definition to use pipes instead of parans, and not have
> ambiguities (I think), but that's a pretty significant language
> change. I guess they were just born that way, and it's too late to
> change.

So these two would be the same, right?

def myfunc(foo = nil, bar = nil)
end

def myfunc |foo, bar|
end

Just a bit of sugar, I like it :)

Douglas