From: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...>
Date: 2001-08-17T12:36:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19930] Re: Keyword arguments (was GUI...)

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:16:45PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

will there be the possibility to pass more than one block to a function? or
will the block stay the last argument?

It's not that I actually see much need for passing more than one block - I'm
just curious but is planned at the moment, not suggesting anything...

greetings, Florian Pflug