From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-09-22T19:20:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5064] Re: Default values for named formal parameters

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5063] Default values for named formal parameters"
    on 00/09/22, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|but if they should really be named formal parameters I guess you should be
|able to specify default values with a simpler syntax. Or what do you
|think? How do you do it yourself when you classes with lots of options? I
|made a small module for this once but I'm thinking on extending it...

Keyword arguments (ala Python) is one of the 1.7 goals.  Stay tuned.

							matz.