With or without arguments - how?

Ruby
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I’ve used methods before that work with or without arguments. I’ve tried
to figure it out but can’t get to the bottom of it. Could someone give
me a hint how you would go about creating a method that works for either
of these cases?

mymethod(x, y)
x + y
end

Then somehow get this to work without the (x, y) arguments…? What I
want is to have a method that can do something on default if no
arguments are spec’d or I can refine what it does by adding arguments.

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On Jan 23, 11:01 pm, Jason L. [email protected]
wrote:

want is to have a method that can do something on default if no
arguments are spec’d or I can refine what it does by adding arguments.

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What methods? Have you looked at the source for those methods? Have
you read Programming Ruby? What about this section (http://www.ruby-
doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_methods.html)?

HTH,
Chris

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Try this:
my_method(x = 1, y = 1)
x + y
end

Warmest Regards,

Victor H. Goff III

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Jason L. <

4

OK, sorry this was a dumb question. I missed default values.

Thank you.

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On 24.01.2009 07:22, Jason L. wrote:

OK, sorry this was a dumb question. I missed default values.

… and probably the splash operator as well which can be used to
similar purpose.

Kind regards

robert