From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2006-03-02T10:13:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Confusion Over Keyword Arguments

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:46:23 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> No, we don't have to.  The colon can be ugly with symbols, for
> example, 
> 
>   db.find(order: :date)
> 
> is not good looking.  Any other proposal (except for "=')?

If the keyword has to be unadorned, and this has to be done solely through
an infix operator, how about:

db.find (order ~> :date) 
db.find (order -> :date)

If it's ok to adorn the keyword, and the parser can distinguish these, that
opens up lots of options:

db.find ([order] = :date)
db.find (|order| = :date)
db.find (-order- = :date)
db.find (/order/ = :date)
db.find (#order# = :date)
db.find (#order = :date)

I've got no clue how the parser works, so these may be non-starters for
various reasons.  

Jay Levitt