From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-04-20T20:27:10-04:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02540] Re: Default naming for iterator parameters

    >The less "convenient" little special cases I have to memorize to use a
    >language, the better chance I'll be able to hold the whole thing in my head at
    >the same time.  I gave up on perl because of too much thrashing between code
    >and the man pages.

Here here!  I heartily agree.  If default keywords were to
be supported like this, they would have to be predictable in all
contexts -- such as a,b,c,d,... or some other well known sequence.

But then again, I'm a minimalist too.  Less is more.  'Tis better
to remove features than add them :-)

This started off sounding like a good idea, but I think this
puts the old nail in the coffin for me...

/\ndy