From: Daniel Finnie <dan@...>
Date: 2009-07-26T05:40:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] keyword_arguments v0.0.1

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This looks very useful and time-saving, thanks for posting!

Dan


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM, <dominikho@gmx.net> wrote:

> This is the first release (and actually my first announce on this list
> as well) of keyword_arguments[1][2]
>
> What it does is provide a handful of convenient methods for working
> with hashes as named arguments. Those methods allow you to specify
> required, default and allowed arguments, without the need of
> duplicating code all over your methods, without the need of even
> adding anything to your actual methods.
>
> There is also an example[3] online, showing all three methods in action.
>
> I know that this gem might be quite controversial because it is
> patching core classes, but I tried to take care that I won't actually
> break anything, it should even work with other libraries that have
> their own "method describing" methods.
>
> If you have any ideas, bugs or criticism, or even if you just
> appreciate the idea, answer this thread (or fork and patch it, heh)
>
> Links
> [1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/keywordargs/
> [2] http://github.com/dominikh/keyword_arguments/tree/master
> [3]
> http://github.com/dominikh/keyword_arguments/blob/7c9574f926ecea514f0a4e153698c57e3b884091/README.markdown
>
> --
> Dominik Honnef
> dominikho@gmx.net
>

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