From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-02-29T08:15:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] MacRuby

Hi,

In message "Re: [ANN] MacRuby"
    on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:04:38 +0900, "Laurent Sansonetti" <laurent.sansonetti@gmail.com> writes:

|>  I still think having dedicated syntax for Objective-C call is better
|>  than overriding normal call.
|>
|>
|>   duck.foo: 1 bar: 2
|>
|>  or
|>
|>
|>   duck.foo: 1, bar: 2
|>
|>  maybe?  I am not sure if the parser allows this or not yet.
|>
|
|I have been thinking about this too, but I personally believe that it
|doesn't reveal very pretty when messaging Objective-C methods with
|only one argument.
|
|  duck.foo: 1

You can still map one-argument method to duck.foo(1) as it does now.

|But maybe we will switch to it soon, because it's more consistent with
|Objective-C (no potential ambiguities). But it doesn't feel very Ruby.

That is very important design decision.  Objective-C-ish calling or
Ruby-ish calling.  The latter makes program consistent, but the former
makes program obvious. Hmm.

							matz.