From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T06:09:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20814] Re: passing hashes

Dave Thomas wrote:

> 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"}

I'm not sure I understand what's going on here.  Are you saying that this 
is a shorthand for

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

(which doesn't feel like a big saving) or is there deeper meaning that I'm 
missing?