From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T21:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>Hey, what about ":(foo="bar"){puts foo}"? It's still not beautiful but it's
>still less annoying, and in Ruby we are already used to see colons at the
>beginning of a word. Of course, overloading ":" may not be considered a good
>idea, but it shouldn't be a parsing problem as this one would always be
>followed by a "(" (and that doesn't happen with symbols). And:
>
>collection.each:(foo="bar"){puts foo}
>
>isn't that bad :) .
>  
>
+1