From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T23:02:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] nil for unassigned keys

On 7/19/05, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>     on Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:58:53 +0900, Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> |Maybe I don't understand the mandatory argument thing?
> |But can't you just count them somehow?
> 
> Hmm, the current rule is that all arguments are packed in an array,
> and you can specify a hash without braces at the end of the argument
> list, so that
> 
>  test(1, 2, 42)       # [1,2,42]
>  test(1, 2, 3, 4)     # [1,2,3,4]
>  test(1, 2, 3, 4=>5)  # [1,2,3,{4=>5}]
> 
> are passed by the caller.  This does not require any callee side
> argument tweaking.  I think I can understand the rule you want, but
> it's rather complex, especially in combination with optional arguments
> and rest argument.

Ok, Thanks for explaining how it works. 
I had no idea what it would take to add this..
Just thought that I had to give it a go.

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Simon Strandgaard