On 7 November 2013 00:02, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Under what conditions would we have a MessageSend without arguments?
>
> MessageSend class>>#receiver:selector:.  Seaside does this with
> keyword messages to setup callbacks.  The arguments aren't known at
> the time the callback is set up.

I mis-spoke. I thought you meant the change to be "when arguments is
_uninitialised", but #receiver:selector: does do that.

Right. So you're actually saying that (MessageSend receiver: 1
selector: #abs) numArgs == 0 instead of the correct 1. I agree. Sorry
for the noise!

(Of course you could also ^ arguments size + 1...)

frank

>> We have three proper constructors that create fully initialised
>> MessageSends, so I'd rather hope (quite possibly in vain) that noone
>> creates MessageSends through #new directly. It doesn't look like the
>> base image does so.
>