Hi Jochen, Thank you for reaching out on this. Although our codebase has ellipsis usages where people might pass more than 255 characters, supporting more than 255 isn't a practical use case. I think we could easily restrict to 255.
-James On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM Jochen Theodorou via dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to ask if having calls with more than 255 arguments is > something to consider for Grails. Because right now Groovy supports that > sometimes, but not really or only indirectly. 255 is a JVM limit for the > number of parameters you can have, so any target taking more needs to > involve varargs. > the cases I am wondering about are probably not people actually writing > 255 arguments in a method calls, But something like m(*l) for example, > where l is a list/array with more than 255 elements. > > Thanks for the feedback > Jochen >
