From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-08-20T21:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: #has_arguments?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Brian Candler<b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> No, it's not the same. Consider:
>
>  def foo(a = nil)
>    m(a)
>  end
>
>  foo()
>
> It saves replicating your default values all over the place, which isn't
> very DRY.

I didn't take Robert as meaning that the above is silly.

>
> Or you could more simply write
>
>  def m(a = nil)
>    @a = a || 123
>  end

But, unless I'm missing something subtle, THIS is what Robert was
calling silly, since as far as I can tell, this

def m(a=123)
    @a = a
end

Has exactly the same effect, and seems much clearer.

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