From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-19T10:04:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible bug with handling of default values for a method



On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:15:51AM +0900, Berge, Robert wrote:
> I have the following code snippet:
>  
> classSomeClass
>      def meth1( to = 'default1', msg = 'default2' )
>         ...
>      end
> end
>  
> param1 = nil ## value is nil because of selecting from a nullable db field
> param2 = "Some Message"
>  
> sc.meth1(
>  param1, param2 )

If you pass nil into the first parameter, it will be nil. The defaults only get
used if you dont supply any argument.

sc.meth1(param1) # msg defaults to 'default2'
sc.meth1         # to defaults to 'default1', msg defaults to 'default2'

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