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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:27:57AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "Ruby Language Q's"
>     on 02/07/30, "Justin Johnson" <justinj / mobiusent.com> writes:

> |2. I like the idea of named method parameters (ala Smalltalk, Objective-C).
> |There was a discussion elsewhere showing something similar using hash
> |tables.  With a bit of syntactic sugar...   :var => 10 could be  var: 10
> 
> I want something more, for example:
> 
>   class PC
>     def initialize(cpu:, os: "Windows", **info)
>       @cpu = cpu        # "cpu" is a mandatory named arg
>       @os = os          # "os" is with the default value
>       @info = info      # symbol=>value hashtable
>     end
>   end
>   PC.new(os: "Linux", cpu: "P-III", clock: "600MHz", hdd: "30G")

I'd prefer "=" instead of ":" because passing parameters is a kind of
assignment in the scope of the functions body:

   class PC
     def initialize(cpu, os="Windows", **info)
       @cpu = cpu        # "cpu" is a mandatory named arg
       @os = os          # "os" is with the default value
       @info = info      # symbol=>value hashtable
     end
   end
   PC.new(os="Linux", cpu="P-III", clock="600MHz", hdd="30G")

Although I must admit that this is incompatible to how ruby works
currently:

def foo(param="bar")
	param
end

param="my value"

foo()   		# => "bar"
foo("baz")		# => "baz"
foo(param="qux")	# => "qux"
param			# => "qux" !!!

Therefor there certainly is a need for discussion :)

-billy

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