From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T09:19:39+09:00
Subject: Re: What does *var mean?

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quoth the Hal Fulton:
> darren kirby wrote:
> > quoth the dblack@wobblini.net:
> >>>**kwargs will collect them in a hash.
> >>
> >>When you say "will"... do you mean in the future?  Is that documented
> >>somewhere?  I can't puzzle out the reasoning behind it.
> >
> > Eh? Are you just poking fun at me or what?
> >
> > **kwargs collects them in a hash.
> >
> > Better?
>
> Haha... I don't think he was poking fun at you. He really
> didn't know whether you were using a "real" future tense
> or not.

I thought for sure he was poking fun. I looked up a bunch of his previous=20
posts and he certainly knows a lot about Ruby, so he must know that precedi=
ng=20
a function/method definition arg with '**' collects them in a hash...

> Funny, because I had a conversation with him about my
> copyeditor and this very issue.
>
> FWIW, I used the "pseudo-future" tense a lot in the book,
> and the CE always changed it to strict present. In some
> cases, I changed it back.

Yeah, we're computer guys, not English majors right?
Besides, it _will_ collect the args in a hash in the future, because you mu=
st=20
define the function before calling it...

>
> Hal

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