From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T01:10:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Confusion Over Keyword Arguments

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Levitt [mailto:jay+news@jay.fm] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:14 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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

Or, maybe we should just stick with "=>" as a keyword operator, and
declare that if you want to pass a literal hash, you have to wrap it in
{}.

Regards,

Dan