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authorknu <knu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2010-09-10 07:51:58 +0000
committerknu <knu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2010-09-10 07:51:58 +0000
commit82abe79b9fa3b5a648f453076a28ed9566d02ec8 (patch)
tree38c67940337c200adc83b83669049492fb4a3534 /README.EXT
parent4f77c495cddcdfcbb15e363ba21d09e5a9ddfd37 (diff)
downloadruby-82abe79b9fa3b5a648f453076a28ed9566d02ec8.tar.gz
* class.c (rb_scan_args): Add support for optional keyword
argument hash. * README.EXT, README.EXT.ja: Update documentation accordingly. * dir.c (dir_initialize): Make use of the new rb_scan_args() feature. * io.c (rb_io_s_popen, rb_scan_open_args, rb_io_initialize) (rb_io_s_pipe, open_key_args, io_s_foreach, io_s_readlines) (rb_io_s_read, rb_io_set_encoding): Ditto. * transcode.c (str_transcode, econv_args) (econv_primitive_convert): Ditto. * ext/zlib/zlib.c (rb_gzreader_initialize): Ditto. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@29214 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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diff --git a/README.EXT b/README.EXT
index ac0d7cc98d..c2b2d9d52d 100644
--- a/README.EXT
+++ b/README.EXT
@@ -1105,12 +1105,13 @@ according to the format string. The format can be described in ABNF
as follows:
--
-scan-arg-spec := param-arg-spec [block-arg-spec]
+scan-arg-spec := param-arg-spec [option-hash-arg-spec] [block-arg-spec]
param-arg-spec := pre-arg-spec [post-arg-spec] / post-arg-spec / pre-opt-post-arg-spec
pre-arg-spec := num-of-leading-mandatory-args [num-of-optional-args]
post-arg-spec := sym-for-variable-length-args [num-of-trailing-mandatory-args]
pre-opt-post-arg-spec := num-of-leading-mandatory-args num-of-optional-args num-of-trailing-mandatory-args
+option-hash-arg-spec := sym-for-option-hash-arg
block-arg-spec := sym-for-block-arg
num-of-leading-mandatory-args := DIGIT ; The number of leading
@@ -1122,6 +1123,18 @@ sym-for-variable-length-args := "*" ; Indicates that variable
; captured as a ruby array
num-of-trailing-mandatory-args := DIGIT ; The number of trailing
; mandatory arguments
+sym-for-option-hash-arg := ":" ; Indicates that an option
+ ; hash is captured if the last
+ ; argument is a hash or can be
+ ; converted to a hash with
+ ; #to_hash. When the last
+ ; argument is nil, it is
+ ; captured if it is not
+ ; ambiguous to take it as
+ ; empty option hash; i.e. '*'
+ ; is not specified and
+ ; arguments are given more
+ ; than sufficient.
sym-for-block-arg := "&" ; Indicates that an iterator
; block should be captured if
; given
@@ -1134,8 +1147,8 @@ assigned to captured arguments. For omitted arguments, variables are
set to Qnil. NULL can be put in place of a variable reference, which
means the corresponding captured argument(s) should be just dropped.
-The number of given arguments, excluding an iterator block, is
-returned.
+The number of given arguments, excluding an option hash or iterator
+block, is returned.
** Invoking Ruby method