From: Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T00:31:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14782] Re: skipping arguments

At 11:40 PM 5/7/01 +0900, Dennis Decker Jensen wrote:
>"Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message
> >
> > Then these would be valid calls:
> >
> >   addPerson('Fred', 23, MALE, BROWN)
> >
> >   addPerson 'Barney' withSex: MALE  withAge: 20
> >
> >   addPerson 'Wilma'  withHair: BLONDE
> >
> > (again, remember the syntax is just made up).
> >
>
>I don't care if it is made up!
>This syntax is great! I would vote for that syntax if it is possible
>at all that way!
>
>Someone asked about getting rid of commas, which sounded very
>interesting.
>I'll ask also:
>Do you need to type the commas for other reasons than conventional
>wisdom?

Well, maybe one reason is that it would be very difficult then to tell Ruby 
from Smalltalk... No! I'm just joking, please don't flame me! :)

Bye,
         Luigi