From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T06:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661

Hi --

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Jim Freeze wrote:

> It was brought up today at lunch by Hal
> that we could always use paren' to denote
> default arguments. I think it is a rare enough
> event, and the method has little impact on
> the language, that it may be the best idea yet.
> <disclaimer>I'm not sure if Hal or someone else
> came up with the idea first</disclaimer>
>
>  x(a,b) { |y, (z=2)|  .... }
>  x(a,b) { |y, (z=5|7)| ... }
>  mylambda = lambda { |(a=1), (b=2) ... }
>  x(a,b, &mylambda)

Just thinking out loud, so to speak (so to speak [so to speak...]):

x(a,b) {|y, z(=2)| ... }

Sort of:  "z (which defaults to 2)"


David

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