From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T03:45:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

J�rg W Mittag wrote:
> 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/>

... which will appear[1] in Ruby 1.9.2. Nice work!

jwm

[1] https://GitHub.Com/RubySpec/MatzRuby/blob/trunk/proc.c#L694-710