From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T11:01:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

Hi --

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Default argument values for blocks"
>    on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:13:31 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:
>
> |I definitely think a keyword would be better than -> .
>
> Maybe.  Some prefer verbosity to clarity.  So what keyword you think
> "the best"?

In this case I think verbosity *is* clarity :-)  The -> thing really
has a "line-noise" quality that looks very out of place to me.

I could imagine using the lambda modification posted earlier:

   block = lambda(a,b=1) { ... }

for those few times when this would be necessary.

Another idea, since I think at least 99% of this is about
define_method, would be to make some kind of special case treatment
for define_method.  But I can't think of a good way to do that.


David

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David A. Black
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