Ruby Arguments Can Reference Other Arguments

I love the dark corners of Ruby. Today we discovered this one by basically guessing that it might work:

def foos(foo, bar = foo.upcase + "!")
  puts foo
  puts bar
end

2.3.1 :001 > foos('foo')
foo
FOO!
 => nil

That's right; bar references another argument, foo. And we can also call a method on it. And concatenate it with a string, because, why not? The 'principle of least surprise' strikes again.

h/t Brian Dunn