From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-08-10T08:53:20+09:00
Subject: Re: define_method with default parameters

Hi --

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

> Emmanuel Oga wrote:
>> how can i use define_method to assign default parameters?
>> 
>> I want to do this:
>> 
>> a_helper_module.module_eval do
>>   define_method(:method_name) do |parameter, parameter2= "default"|
>>     puts parameter
>>     puts parameter2
>>   end
>> end
>
> Why don't you just use the regular "def"? Am I missing something?

In this particular example you could, but the issue of defaults for
block parameters is still a real one, for #define_method and other
cases.


David

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