From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T04:35:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20806] Re: passing hashes

Chris Moore <thegrandbrie@softhome.net> writes:

> A thought occured to me.  Earlier there was in the GUI/Fox discussions 
> mention of possible functionality like
> 
> fxwidget (:x=val, :top=val ) #I don't use fox
> 
> so that you don't have to remember the order of widget options... when the 
> thought occured to me, why not make it so that you can pass a hash to a 
> method? this kind of achieves the same functionality using built in classes 
> and possibly greater flexibility.
> 
> any thoughts?

Matz is ahead of you :)

  def fred(first_param, rest)
    p first_param
    p rest
  end



  fred 123, :name => "mickey", :type => "mouse"

#=>
  123
  {:type=>"mouse", :name=>"mickey"}