From: J J <jj5412@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T00:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14778] Re: skipping arguments

One possible work around:

def test(a, b, *more_args)
    a = 'foo' if a.nil?
    b = 'bar' if b.nil?
    ...
end

Regards,
  JJ

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> def test(a = 'foo', b = 'bar', *more_arz)
>
> now, when calling this method, say i only want to change the value of b,
while leaving a the same.  how can i do this?