From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T01:39:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Language Q's

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:10:55AM +0900, ts wrote:
>  This is not the problem. When you write an extension, you use the same API
>  than ruby. If you change the API, you must completely change the source
>  of ruby.
> 
>  I've the strange impression that you want named parameter only for user
>  defined methods. If I have named parameter, I expect also to have named
>  parameters for *all* methods of ruby

Not necessarily.  There can be a transition period in which not all
methods support named parameters (and if you try to call these methods
using named parameters, you will get an exception).  And it's not a
complete change of the Ruby source; you need only change the Init_*
functions.

The same would be true for extensions that don't define names for their
parameters.

Paul