Method Arguments In Ruby

Re:Method Arguments In Ruby by bad_user on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @08:24AM (#770279)

> it happened only once that I missed default parameters in C#

I actually missed it lots of times. You can work around it by overloading the method, but that's boilerplate for a simple concept.

I also miss named arguments (in both Ruby and C#). When reading the code, when a method has more arguments than one I often forget what the arguments are or their positioning, and it is a lot more readable to specify the arguments by their names ...

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Ruby doesn't support that. It only has syntactic sugar for the case in which the argument of the method is a hash, but then the method definition becomes less clear.

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Re:Method Arguments In Ruby by _giu on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @11:39AM (#770661)

I totally agree with you! the code is definitely more readable. I think the object initalizer (e.g. var o = new MyObject(){ID=123};) was a step in the direction of named parameters.

however, it looks like named parameters will be shipped with .NET 4.0: http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2009/01/22/c-4....

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