Today I Learned

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Ruby yield as keyword args default

Today I learned that you can use yield as a default value for a keyword arg.

def foo(bar: yield)
  "Received => #{bar}"
end

Then you can call this method using the keyword syntax:

foo(bar: "Hello world!")
#=> "Received => Hello world!"

or by using the block syntax:

foo do
  "Hello world!"
end
#=> "Received => Hello world!"

I am not sure why I'd use such flexible syntax for a single method, but we have to know what's possibly in Ruby. Anyway, just a sanity check here, is the block evaluated if we pass the arg?:

foo(bar: "Hello") do
  puts "Block was evaluated!!!"
  "world!"
end
#=> "Received => Hello"

Cool, so ruby does not evaluate the block if this keyword is passed into, so we are cool.

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