From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2001-08-17T03:19:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19913] Re: Keyword args (was: The GUI poll is in, and the resultsaresurprising)


HEF> But whatever the syntax, Ruby is going to have keyword
HEF> arguments... so we won't have to use the hash workaround.
HEF> They will be similar to Python's, unless I am missing
HEF> something.

HEF> Of course, Python doesn't allow an assignment to return
HEF> a value (does it?). So this will be a problem for us...

HEF> In Ruby, a call like some_func(x=5) means "assign 5 to
HEF> x, and pass that value 5 into some_func." So we need a
HEF> different syntax, I think...

some_func(x := 5)  ?

I guess this would mean that you could not have a symbol "=".

thanks,
-joe