From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-12-07T23:18:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Very Basic Question

Yaser Sulaiman wrote:

> def accept_hash(var)
>     print "got: ", var.inspect
> end
> accept_hash :arg1 => 'giving arg1', :argN => 'giving argN'

Better, Ruby 1.9 will let us fold the symbol and => notation:

   arg1: 'giving arg1', argN: 'giving argN'

This means that Ruby has invented the "named argument" system, but it did it the 
right way; by building the feature out of low-level syntax elements that we can 
reuse for other situations. Ruby did not do what some languages do - invent 
named arguments using their own magic system that only works in method argument 
lists.

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   Phlip