From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T23:39:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

Hi,

In message "Re: Default argument values for blocks"
    on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:42:06 +0900, Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@free.fr> writes:

|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 :) .

I have never thought of that.  Hmm, let me think about it during the
conference trip.  I'm leaving tomorrow morning.

							matz.