[Grace-core] Further questions on the specification

[Kim Bruce]

I agree, my argument does not work with mixfix methods.

Kim



On May 26, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Andrew P. Black wrote:

> On 26 May 2011, at 22:43, Kim Bruce wrote:
> 
>> I think it is hard to make method calls unambiguous if there are vargs parameters at more places than the end.  Imagine a call to a method with signature:
>>  method m(ns: Int*,k:Int*) 
>> or whatever syntax -- how do you know when you call o.m(1,2,3,4,5) which parameters go where?
>> 
>> Kim
> 
> 
> Yes, I think that more than one varargs parameter is a bad idea.  But there may be reasons not to insist on having them at the end.
> 
> 	for (elements…) do (block)
> 
> is an example where having the varargs first makes sense.   The interpretation is unambiguous in this case.
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