From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T08:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

David Masover wrote:
> Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> And now that ruby_parser can be used for almost all the offline 
>> PT-based tools, there's even less motivation.
> Merb uses ParseTree for something called ActionArgs feature which, as I 
> understand it, actually relies on the name of function parameters. For 
> example, if you have an action which takes an argument called 'foo', and 
> that URL is hit with a querystring like ?foo=bar, it will pass that 
> value ('bar', in that case) as that argument.

Actually, this could be much better solved by a well-structured
Signature object � la Python's PEP362 "Function Signature Object":
<http://Python.Org/dev/peps/pep-0362/> 

jwm