From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-01-25T21:34:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword arguments in Ruby

il 24 Jan 2004 22:09:53 -0800, grom_3@optusnet.com.au (grom) ha
scritto::

>Is it possbile for Ruby to have keyword arguments added in like in
>Python.
>

I supposed I answered but my msg didn't show up on comp.lang.ruby. 
Sorry if I double post:

kwd args are goin to be included in ruby2.0 
Until that you can emulate them via instance_eval like in tk

Parrot.new{state='a stiff'}
or explicitly using an hash:
Parrot.new(:state=>'a stiff')