caius

def output name=((default=true); "caius")
  puts "name: #{name.inspect}"
  puts "default: #{default.inspect}"
end

output
# >> name: "caius"
# >> default: true

output "avdi"

jashkenas

// Here is a proposal for minimalist JavaScript classes, humbly offered.

// There are (at least) two different directions in which classes can be steered.
// If we go for a wholly new semantics and implementation, then fancier classical
// inheritance can be supported with parallel prototype chains for true inheritance
// of properties at both the class and instance level.

// If however, we keep current JavaScript prototype semantics, and add a form that
// can desugar to ES3, things must necessarily stay simpler. This is the direction
// I'm assuming here.