From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T22:52:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Areal noob question

David Ishmael wrote:
> I'm still learning Ruby (so don't flame me too hard here), but some of 
> the
> programming paradigms I've grown accustomed to such as inline scope
> declarations and type hinting are missed (at least by me).
> 
> protected foo( SomeObject o ) { ... }
> 
> In that one line I can tell you that the method is protected and 
> requires
> SomeObject to be passed to it.  Versus Ruby's:
> 
> protected
> 
> def foo( o )
>     ...
> end

Can't help much with the protected issue, but

  def foo(some_object)
  end

Tells you what foo expects as an argument.

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