From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-11T01:45:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28102] Re: Status of keyword args?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:28070] Status of keyword args?"
    on 01/12/10, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|Since there's a rumour 1.8 is coming up soon I wonder if keyword args will
|make it? Guess not since we haven't seen them in 1.7.x.

Unfortunately, no.

|If they aren't gone make it I'd be interested in the reason. Is it simply
|because of no time or is there some fundamental problem with introducing
|them?

Mostly timeframe reason.  It requires heavy rewrite of both API and
implementation.  For example rb_scan_args() works no more with keyword
arguments.

							matz.