From: Justin Johnson <justinj@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T20:38:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Language Q's


Yes, of course.  I'm still stuck in static compiler thinking.

I suppose that named arguments would incur a performance overhead then...
:-(

--
Justin Johnson.

<nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:200207311111.g6VBBY614629@sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp...
> Hi,
>
> At Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:58:07 +0900,
> Justin Johnson wrote:
> > Thinking aloud: would the argument order be taken care of at parsing
time?
> >
> > my_method( height: 30 width: 20, pos: 10 )
> >
> > is reordered to:
> >
> > my_method( pos: 10, width: 20, height: 30 )
> >
> > or even:
> >
> > my_method( 10, 20, 30 )
>
> Theoretically impossible.  Which method is really called is
> unknown until invocation.
>
> --
> Nobu Nakada
>