From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-07-25T20:46:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining a method with an argument with a default value

Hi,

At Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:33:38 +0900,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote in [ruby-talk:203711]:
> define_method(:initialize){|value=nil| @value = value if value}

define_method(:initialize) {|*values|
  case values.size
  when 0
    value = nil
  when 1
    value = values.first
  else
    raise ArgumentError, "wrong number of arguments (#{values.size} for 0)"
  end
  @value = value
}

-- 
Nobu Nakada