[Vm-dev] Methods with more than 15 args sketch

Jan Vrany jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz
Thu Jun 16 16:11:16 UTC 2016



On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:57 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> 
> Regardless of any particular design ideas to implement this, I’d 
> just like to say.. No.
> Nononono.
> Bad design to use huge parameter lists. What next - allowing 1 
> billion arguments for someone that thinks each pixel in a large 
> bitmap needs to be an argument?
I say...Yes.
Yesyesyesyes.

Think of generated code. Think of interop. There are too many too low 
limits already (number of instance variables comes to mind)
More recently designed architectures set limits a little higher. 
Something like 65535 :-)

Jan
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> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Compromise, says Prof. Trefusis, is stalling between two fools
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