From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T23:02:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl Richter [mailto:daryl@brandywine.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:00 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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

-1. Sucks.

Dan