Hello Gabriele, on Sunday, 09-Jun-02, 15:12:46, Gabriele Santilli wrote:
> REBOL does not support variable number of arguments because of its > freeform syntax. As with all rules there seems to be an expection: The list of arguments to MAKE as specified by >> source make == make: native [ "Constructs and returns a new value." type [any-type!] "The datatype or example value." spec [any-type!] "The attributes of the new value." ] says there are exactly two arguments TYPE and SPEC, which is true in the case of >> make block! 5 == [] But that given I really can't explain why >> make function! [] ; two arguments, as suggested ** Script Error: Invalid argument: (missing value) ** Near: make function! [] fails and why instead of >> make function! [[ ... ] [ ... ]] ; two arguments - which one should consider to be what MAKE expects of us to do - we're all used to write >> make function! [ ... ] [ ... ] ; three arguments obviously violating the specification of make ... As said before, I really can't explain this to me. Looks as if all ANY-FUNCTION!s are equal, but some NATIVE!s are more equal ... Any ideas, somebody? Regards, Christian -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.