The original mail said characters instead of arguments. Apologies On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM James Daugherty <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >
