From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2001-08-17T00:45:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19905] Keyword arguments (was GUI...)



LC> remember with the 5th argument was about. The only exception is the use of
LC> named arguments (by symbol or string, which is possible with today's
LC> ruby!):

LC>       @button = Button.new('Click me', :border => 10);

This requires that Button.initialize deal with a hash as an argument yes?

This does not work for me:

def test(a, b)
  puts "#{a} #{b}"
end

test(:b => "world", :a => "hello")

I see that Matz says he is adding keyword arguments to ruby 1.7:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/~poffice/mail/ruby-talk/5064

Matz: Is this in 1.7 yet?  What would the syntax look like?

Keyword arguments is an "argument" :-) a co-worker brought up in favor
of python.

thanks,
-joe