From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T01:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Language Q's

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Dave Thomas wrote:

> we could write interfaces like
>
>       drawWidget fred   x: 10   y: 20  color: red
>
> The Ruby Tk constructors could replace the current instance_eval trick
> with this syntax and lose the confusing scoping rules.
>

This looks nice.  Only thing is the havoc one could write
with the ? operator, and Symbols:-

     wossname a: 3 b: r ? x : y c: :d

but then anything can be obfuscated...  Is this frightening enough to
require some other form?  The chances of anyone writing real code like
that compare to a Snowball in hell, so I'm just playing Devil's Advocaat
here....:-)

> Just an idea...
>
>
> Dave
>
        Hugh