From: "David A. Black" Date: 2005-10-24T03:10:48+09:00 Subject: Re: A comparison by example of keyword argument styles Hi -- On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > 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? No. Nor is there any reason for Ruby to converge onto what's common in other languages. : for symbols is fine. David -- David A. Black dblack@wobblini.net