From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T19:17:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword arguments?

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Vis Mike wrote:

[snip]
> Keyword arguments help with ambiguity.
[snip]

this is close

class Person
  def initialize args
    @name = args[:name]
    @age  = args[:age]
  end
end

me = Person.new :name => 'ara', :age => 30

note that's a hash, not keywords - but you get the same effect.

hope that helps.

-a

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