Backport #7942: keyword arguments must use with paren?

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)

[jjyr (Jinyang Jiang)]

def hello name: "ruby2"
puts "hello #{name}"
end

syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '\n'

def hello(name: "ruby2")
puts "hello #{name}"
end

work well

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

• Tracker changed from Backport to Feature
• Project changed from Backport200 to Ruby master
• Assignee set to nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)

Backport from where?

Order is:
(1) Modify trunk
(2) Backport to 2.0.0

BTW, I +1 for this proposal.

[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

• Tracker changed from Feature to Bug

Moving to bug.

def foo x, opt:42; end # => ok
def foo    opt:42; end # => syntax error, should be ok
def foo(   opt:42); end # => ok

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

• Category set to core
• Target version set to 2.1.0
• ruby -v set to -v

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r39504.
jy, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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parse.y: keyword argument without paren

• parse.y (IS_LABEL_POSSIBLE): allow labels for keyword arguments just
  after method definition without a parenthesis. [ruby-core:52820]
  [Bug #7942]

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Backport
• Project changed from Ruby master to Backport200
• Category deleted (core)
• Status changed from Closed to Assigned
• Assignee changed from nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) to nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)
• Target version deleted (2.1.0)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Subject changed from keyword arguments must use with quot? to keyword arguments must use with paren?

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

This issue was solved with changeset r39708.
jy, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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merge revision(s) 39504: [Backport #7942]

* parse.y (IS_LABEL_POSSIBLE): allow labels for keyword arguments just
  after method definition without a parenthesis.  [ruby-core:52820]
  [Bug #7942]