On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Sam Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was wondering what purpose the '4 or fewer args' restriction serves and
> therefore how you might retain the performance of this implementation with
> 1.3.0-alpha4 and beyond (assuming the restriction is here to stay). Would
> you have to break out into a number of smaller fns calculating the new x, y
> length and angle vals?
>

Interfaces have to defined for every combination of primitive arguments - so
you get interface explosion, thus only 4. Not ideal, but that's how it is
for now.

Looking at that signature (6 arguments?), that should probably be refactored
anyway - sounds like a good use case for deftype.

David

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