handling keyword args

kwargs.rb

jupiter:~/JAVA/swf-converter-conversion-node$ time perl6 -e '
sub foo(*@args, *%kwargs) {
  print %kwargs
}
foo(1,2,3,a=> 1, b => 2)
'

a	1b	2
real	0m0.613s
user	0m0.446s
sys	0m0.145s
gregf@jupiter:~/JAVA/swf-converter-conversion-node$ 
jupiter:~/JAVA/swf-converter-conversion-node$ time ruby -le '
def foo(*args, **kwargs)
  p kwargs
end
foo(1,2,3,{a:1, b: 2})
'
{:a=>1, :b=>2}

real	0m0.038s
user	0m0.034s
sys	0m0.004s
jupiter:~/JAVA/swf-converter-conversion-node$ time python -c '
def foo( *args, **kwargs):
   print kwargs
 
foo(1,2,3, a=1, b=2)
'
{'a': 1, 'b': 2}

real	0m0.013s
user	0m0.005s
sys	0m0.008s