From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-14T12:21:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03996] Re: Optional argument and *rest simultaneously

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03973] Optional argument and *rest simultaneously"
    on 00/07/13, Aleksi Niemel� <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|In my test case the first call to foo is working fine, but the second don't
|have any value for the the optional argument so Ruby leaks first entry from
|the *rest and substitute the optional argument with it. Is there a call
|format which works in this case or should the parsing be changed so that
|f_optarg and f_rest_arg can't be present at the same time?

There's no way to do so yet.  I'll work on 1.7 to solve this.

							matz.