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--- Ciao Romano ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Ensel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: How to check function arguments? - Syntax REBOLution ... > 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. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
