Actually the section that got me working on this is page 256.  Of course at
1 am, I didn't notice that this was in the "windows automation" chapter, so
I guess I shouldn't have expected it to work in standard use.

 it looks like there are a number of hacks and work-arounds to get a
feature *like* this to work, but from what I can tell Ruby doesn't do true
named arguments.

_Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Kramer [mailto:rhkramer / gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 07:15 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Named Arguments


On Tuesday 23 August 2005 05:23 am, Brian Schröäer wrote:
> I do not know of such a feature and can't find it mentioned in the 
> pickaxe. Maybe you have  a python pickaxe? Otherwise, could you point 
> me to the page where you found it?

Pgs 84 and 85 of Pickaxe 2 discuss / describe hash arguments consisting of
key 
=> value pairs (and discussed as a workaround for keyed (named) arguments.
I 
suspect the OP was thinking of these.

Randy Kramer