From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-17T12:16:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19929] Re: Keyword arguments (was GUI...)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:19922] Re: Keyword arguments (was GUI...)"
    on 01/08/17, Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com> writes:

|>   test(b: "matz", a: "hello")
|
|I hope those commas won't be needed. I would rather see
|
|test a: "Hooray" b: "for matz!!".

Ah, it's Smalltalk like.  I'm afraid that syntax would be too heavy
burden for the parser.   Since colons (:) are used for many purpose
already (e.g. symbol prefix, ternary operator, etc.), it likely to
cause many conflicts.

							matz.