From: Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@...>
Date: 2005-10-14T05:59:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

On 10/12/05, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> 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.
>
>                                                         matz.
>
>

+1

collection.each : (foo="bar") { puts foo }

It looks like 'when condition : expression' branch in
'case' statement.

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