From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-07-01T04:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: iterators and block arguments

Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> writes:

> Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
>
>> Maybe this syntax could be adopted?
>> 
>>    def foo a, b, *args, c, d; ... end
>
> I want that too.  It would be nice for the []= method
> where the value is always the last argument.

Yeah, that's a good example.  Does anyone have another?

> Or any method where you want optional arguments first or
> in the middle.
>
> In general, this:
>
> def foo a, b, c=x, d=y, *other, e, f
>     ...
> end
>
> should be equivalent to:
>
> def foo a, b, *remaining
>     e,f = remaining.slice!(-2,2)
>     c = remaining.empty? ? x : remaining.shift
>     d = remaining.empty? ? y : remaining.shift
>     other = remaining
>     ...
> end
>
> Want to submit an RCR for this?  I've already done my fair share.

Fair enough.  I'll wait a few days to see what happens to this thread,
and then I'll probably submit one.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>