From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-22T02:22:32+09:00
Subject: Re: A comparison by example of keyword argument styles

Hi --

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Trans wrote:

> So maybe just treat named parameters like blocks. You can have em or
> not. But you don't need to define them in the interface. Currently I do
> a lot of
>
>  def( *args )
>    keys = args.last.is_a?(Hash) ? args.pop : {}
>    a,b,c = *args
>
> If I could just do
>
>  def( a, b, c, **keys )
>    ...
>
> I'd be happy enough.
>
> T.
>
> P.S. But I don't much care for double character '**'. Single character
> would be better. Perhaps '#' or '%'.

   def meth(a,b,#c)    that's a comment
   def meth(a,b,%w_w)  # this one is ambiguous


David

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