From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-08-04T03:08:41+09:00
Subject: Re: different order of parameters...

On 03/08/05, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: different order of parameters..."
> >     on Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:58:17 +0900, david@vallner.net writes:
> >
> > |Will the core API tend towards using keyword arguments, or rather providing
> > |alternatives using them to methods with positional arguments?
> >
> > It would, but it takes years for libraries to adopt keyword arguments.
> >
> >                                                       matz.
> 
> Just imagine:
> 
>   mystring.gsub(/bar/, with: "foo").tr "abc", to: "xyz"
> 
>   [1, 2, 3].inject 0, into: { |a,e| a + e }

wouldn't

[1,2,3].inject 0, :with { |a,e| a+e }

make more sense. (Or even "using:"). I always thought of inject as
injecting a seed and a function into the enumerable.

(Ohh, I know it just a sidenote and may not add anything valuable to
the discussion ;)

regards,

Brian

> 
> (Actually, the comma is disturbing. :-) And no, I don't want to tweak
> Ruby into the next Self.)
> 
> --
> Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
> 
> 


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