From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T11:37:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for Ruby 2.0

Daniel Brockman wrote:

>Interestingly, blocks can have duplicate argument names,
>   {1=>2}.each {|_,_| puts _} #=> 2
>but methods can't:
>   def foo _,_ ; end #=> SyntaxError
>  
>
That's because blocks don't actually have "arguments." They follow the 
rules of parallel assignment.
http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/language.html#blocksclosuresandprocobjects
http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/language.html#parallelassignment

Devin
I decided that I can only post one email per day to this list, so as not 
to be a total spammer. This is the one I chose. So sue me.

Maybe if I'm good, I'll up it to two.

Probably by next week, I'll have given up.