From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T23:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] nil for unassigned keys

On 7/19/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
[snip]
> > Maybe I don't understand the mandatory argument thing?
> > But can't you just count them somehow?
> 
> not when there are zero or more allowed, for instance
>    def test(*args, &block)

Ok.. yeah thats an issue.


[snip]
> why not a little helper function to transform argument lists in the way you
> desire?
[snip]
> which at least allows
>    test(h('x', 'z', 'y' => 42))
[snip]

pretty neat..


the reason I began thinking these thoughts was one
of the other threads where   String#to_a taking a hash
was discussed.

"aoeu".to_a(:bytes=>true)


it could be a little nicer with

"aoeu".to_a(:bytes)

--
Simon Strandgaard