Forum: Ruby-core [Backport 200 - Backport #7942][Open] keyword arguments must use with quot?

Issue #7942 has been reported by jjyr (jy j).

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Backport #7942: keyword arguments must use with quot?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7942

Author: jjyr (jy j)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:


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

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

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

work well

Issue #7942 has been updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

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


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Bug #7942: keyword arguments must use with quot?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7942#change-37016

Author: jjyr (jy j)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
Category: core
Target version: 2.1.0
ruby -v: -v


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

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

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

work well

Issue #7942 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).

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


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Backport #7942: keyword arguments must use with paren?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7942#change-37091

Author: jjyr (jy j)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)
Category:
Target version:


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

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

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

work well