From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-09T17:50:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14903] Re: skipping arguments

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14902] Re: skipping arguments"
    on 01/05/09, Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

|I belive removing the need for commas or making them optional would also
|go against some of the strong points of Ruby so far, since Ruby has so
|very successfully taken great language constructs and made them more
|traditional, such as the point about the strength of SmallTalk, but
|filebased sourcecode and a calling convention that resembles most of the
|mainstream languages. Breaking that last bit would probably hurt Ruby
|acceptance and growth.

I'm glad you've noticed the secret of language design. ;-)
"Don't be too smart".

							matz.