From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-17T03:18:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19912] Re: Keyword arguments (was GUI...)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:19905] Keyword arguments (was GUI...)"
    on 01/08/17, Joseph McDonald <joe@vpop.net> writes:

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

No.  Keyword argument is harder than I expected.  It would be added in
2.0 maybe.

The syntax would be something like

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

  test(b: "matz", a: "hello")

							matz.