From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-08-17T01:00:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19906] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the resultsaresurprising

----- Original Message -----
From: Lars Christensen <larsch@cs.auc.dk>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:40 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:19866] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the
resultsaresurprising


>
> module Fox
>   class FXMainWindow
>     def FXMainWindow.identifier(*symbols)
>       instance_eval "#{symbols.join ', '}, ID_LAST =
>          enum(Fox::FXMainWindow::ID_LAST, #{symbols.length + 1})"
>     end
>   end
> end

Hmm. Can you explain this?

> >
> > If some future version of Ruby supports keyword arguments, the situation
> > will be even better.
>
> Great! By why keep the arguments if you can do without them. When you use
> them, the expression becomes unreadable. You still won't be able to
> remember with the 5th argument was about. The only exception is the use of
> named arguments (by symbol or string, which is possible with today's
> ruby!):

When Lyle said "keyword arguments" he meant the same as you mean
by "named arguments."

Hal