From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T23:48:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

but

   method bool ? 42 : (0b101010) { "block" }

is valid now.

':' is nice on the eyes though.  maybe '::'

-a
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