Luke said: > > sub ($param1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > In which case, if it's prototyped, we stuff > everything besides the > first parameter into a PMC representing > @otherparams. > > And if you meant something else, can't help ya. > > Luke
Maybe I misunderstand what 'prototyped' means. I assume this means that the caller knows exactly what function it is calling, and so knows that how the callee expects its parameters to be organised (one in P5, the rest in an array in P6 or whatever). If you don't know exactly what function you're calling (like you got a Sub object out of a variable) then you have to do a non_prototyped call on it. now, assuming I got that right: Are you saying that it will be impossible to implement variable-length parameter lists to non-prototyped functions? Because that's kind of essential to at least a few languages. Ruby's 'print' function, for instance, has a signature that looks something like this: print(*stuff_to_print) Now, you take that method and pass it out to someone, and they want to call it. How are they to know that they're supposed to shove the parameters into an array? Now, if you *always* put all the parameters into an array for non_prototyped subs, this wouldn't be a problem. But otherwise you can't host Ruby. And I *know* you don't plan to miss out on that, so obviously I'm missing something :-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
