From: Evan Martin <martine@...>
Date: 2002-06-14T03:35:43+09:00
Subject: Re: procs and blocks

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:20:11PM +0900, Dirk Detering wrote:
> This seems to indicate me that 'named parameters'
> are missing, which are possible in Python
> (and do attract me)?
> 
> With that the last line would read:
> err (b=a)  
> 
> Ok, in Ruby there should be an alternative syntax,
> as this one causes another result (and is supposed to).

You can simulate named parameters with a hash:

def foo(params)
  p params[:rar]
  p params[:blah]
end

foo(:blah => "hello", :rar => "meow")

but yes, I agree Python is nicer in this respect.

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      Evan Martin
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