From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2009-08-20T05:58:12+09:00
Subject: Re: #has_arguments?

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Chris Shea<cmshea@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a little trick I learned (very hacky):
>
>  def meth(a=(no_argument='default'))
>    if no_argument
>      'nothing given'
>    else
>      "we got #{a.inspect}"
>    end
>  end
>
> Your default argument can't be falsy (but you could use something
> truey and use your falsy value in its place).  Anyway:

Yeah, my version avoids the falsy issue...but yours is shorter.

Either way...works fine in JRuby and 1.9.

- Charlie