From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T09:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is this not implemented in Ruby



Jason Roelofs wrote:

> >  aProc(1,,3)
> >          ^
> >         from (irb):9
> >         from :0
> >
> >  Why oh why I can not omit parameter in the middle of statement? I am
> >  forced to know its default value if I want to omit a parameter in the
> >  middle or at the begining of the statement.

> Show me a language that does allow you to do this, I've never seen it.

FreeBASIC:

sub foo( a as integer, b as integer = 0, c as integer)
  print using "### ### ###"; a,b,c
end sub

foo 3,,5

 --->   3   0   5