[ruby-dev:52028] [Ruby master Feature#19134] ** is not allowed in def foo(...)

Issue #19134 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). shugo (Shugo Maeda) wrote in #note-14: Since some time @ko1 worked on no implicit block if not a parameter of the method (with the exception of `yield` in the body). I think that's a good property, so I think it's good for `def f; g(&); end` to be a syntax error. For `def f(...); g(&); end` "..." is "capture all arguments, positional, keyword and block" so I think it's more natural there to be able to access the block (although I can't think of when that would be useful, maybe `def f(...); g(&); h(...) end` when `h` is known to ignore the block but that feels hacky, better use `(*, **, &)` parameters then). Thanks! ---------------------------------------- Feature #19134: ** is not allowed in def foo(...) https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19134#change-100680 * Author: shugo (Shugo Maeda) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) * Target version: 3.2 ---------------------------------------- `*` and `&` are allowed in the body of a method with `...` argument forwarding, but `**` is not allowed. ``` def foo(...) bar(*) # OK baz(&) # OK quux(**) # NG end ``` Is it intended behavior? It seems that parse.y has code like `#ifdef RUBY3_KEYWORDS`, and if RUBY3_KEYWORDS, `**` will also be supported. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/