From: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@...>
Date: 2001-08-17T07:10:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19922] Re: Keyword arguments (was GUI...)

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:18:53AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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")

I hope those commas won't be needed. I would rather see

test a: "Hooray" b: "for matz!!".