[Chicago-talk] Dynamic method call

[Paul Baker]

On Nov 6, 2003, at 8:30 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> Do not use them unless you are trying to emulate a built-in.

If we aren't supposed to use them, then why doesn't it say so in the 
docs. I use prototypes to keep users from giving incorrect arguments to 
functions. If they provide the incorrect number of arguments, it's 
caught at compile time and they can quickly fix it. Without prototypes, 
I would need to manually write code to check that they gave the right 
arguments, or I could ignore it and then the user could spend much 
wasted time trying to figure out why their code is mysteriously not 
working the way it's supposed to.

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Paul Baker

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