From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-10-24T04:53:41+09:00
Subject: Re: A comparison by example of keyword argument styles

On 10/23/05, Nikolai Weibull<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:> ���> ary.grep(/regex/, start: 5, end: 8)> ���>> over>> ���> ary.grep(/regex/, start = 5, end = 8)> ���>> Reading the latter, I find my brain wondering where start and end are> being used in the code preceding and following the call to> Enumerable#grep.  In the earlier I don't get the feeling that "start"> and "end" are variables that are getting values assigned to them.
I agree. At least both the Sydney and Matz techniques for keywordarguments use the colon. I do not think using equals will ever be avalid option. Ruby isn't Python, and thank goodness for that.
Ryan