Jonathan Paisley
jp-ww****@dcs*****
Thu Jun 8 06:12:25 JST 2006
On 7 Jun 2006, at 15:36, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > Someone here talked me about that calling convention that Rails is > using: > > obj.foo(:key => val, :key2 => val2, ...) > > and suggested that RubyCocoa uses it. > > I believe that this convention is prettier than the current symbol- > value-symbol-value..., and sounds more like Objective-C. > Tell me what you think, I must admit to rarely using either keyword form. I tend to go for the method_with_underscores. However, I can see that the hash form is more readable, and certainly paves the way for some day when Ruby has true keyword arguments. A sensible caching scheme would alleviate any concerns over inefficiency.
