Ruby design: keyword arguments

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See http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?KeywordArguments for a discussion on
this. Also, see Hal Fulton’s “The Ruby Way” for hash-less way to accomplish
the same thing.

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: gabriele renzi [mailto:surrender_it@rc1.vip.lng.yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:38 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: ruby design: keyword arguments

Hi gurus and nubys,

I just met for the first time a situation where I’d like to
have keyword arguments. I know that I could emulate them
using hashes, but that looks as overhead to me, and I don’t like it.

So I wonder: why we don’t have such a useful thing in ruby?
was it a design choice or just matz forgot them ?