From: Daryl Richter <daryl@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T23:00:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

Devin Mullins wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

+1.  Furthers Ruby/Smalltalk harmonic convergence. :)

-- 
Daryl