From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2005-10-24T00:46:33+09:00 Subject: Re: A comparison by example of keyword argument styles Hi, In message "Re: A comparison by example of keyword argument styles" on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:07:01 +0900, "Trans" writes: |I hate to say, but it seems like the selection of a character commonly |used for assignment operations, i.e. ':' as a prefix for symbols has |come back to haunt. Go back in time Matz! Throw out the '=>', use ':' |instead, and chose us another symbol symbol! For example? It that good enough to break thousands of lines of code? matz.