From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T04:24:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Default argument values for blocks"
>     on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:25:33 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> 
> ||Is there a reason why I can't do this?
> ||
> ||   foo = lambda { |foo = bar| puts foo }
> ||   foo.call
> ||
> ||I can't think of any good reason why this isn't valid.
> |
> |Mostly because yacc does not allow it.  It confuses 
> |
> |  lambda { |foo = bar| puts foo }
> |
> |as 
> |
> |  lambda { |foo = (bar| puts foo) }
> |
> |and causes syntax error.
> 
> For your information, you can do
> 
>   foo = ->(foo="bar"){puts foo}
>   foo.call
> 
> in 1.9.
> 
> 							matz.

MY EYES!!!!

Please, no.

Dan