From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T19:06:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for Ruby 2.0

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

> 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

Don't make me write 5.times { |_| foo }, *please*.

> Nikolai Weibull
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