From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T06:58:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Code completion for Ruby - Net Beans, RDT, and more

On 3/22/07, S. Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:
> Code completion for Ruby is on its way.  I'm concerned that the
> recently popular  style of using hashes to fake named params will keep
> us in the dark, though.
>
> And anyway, Ruby wants to get named params.  How about this: declare
> the method explicitly:
>
> def parse(filename, char = nil, conn = nil, another_param = nil)
>
> and have the interpreter allow the style, by converting a final hash
> to params if and only if all of the keys match the arg names.
>
> So:
>
> parse('readme.txt', :char => 'a', :another_param => true)
> becomes
> parse('readme.txt', a, nil, true)
>
> whereas
> parse('readme.txt', :bad_param => 'b')
> would still be
> parse('readme.txt', {:bad_param => 'b'})
> and it would be up to the parse method to handle as it normally does.
>
> This would allow:
> * real named params
> * more explicit method definitions
> * code completion
> * preserve the current style
>
>
>

Named parameters is in the ToDo file on 1.9 distribution:

* named arguments like foo(nation:="german") or foo(nation: "german").


so you may get what you want
pth