From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2002-01-21T03:26:37+09:00
Subject: Re: $_ as default parameter for a function


On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, D De Villiers wrote:
> O'Mmm' What about:
> def aFunc(param = $_)
>    puts param
> end
> $_ = "blah blah"
> aFunc($_)
> Works !! :-)

er. i think i woke up in a parallel universe this morning. how come we
didn't get to this solution before? we had spent some, er, nontrivial time
trying to get something working. i think there's a catch. Anyway this
looks like good news.

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