From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T21:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for Ruby 2.0

Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:

> > Eric Mahurin wrote:

> > > There is no reason Ruby couldn't optimize for the case where a
> > > variable is declared in the argument list and never used.

> > Nor for it to not issue a warning if the variable is declared in the
> > parameter list but never used,

> This should not happen anyway.  There are enough good reasons to
> ignore some parameters (cf. Integer#times).

That's precisely why you would want to have unnamed variables,
        nikolai

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