Hi Caio, You seem to have found a bug in the parser :) Could you file that as a ticket?
Thanks, Laurent On Oct 10, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Caio Chassot wrote: > I'm playing again with implementing the Hillegass book in MacRuby, and ran > across this method: > > + (NSAlert *)alertWithMessageText:(NSString *)messageTitle > defaultButton:(NSString *)defaultButtonTitle > alternateButton:(NSString *)alternateButtonTitle > otherButton:(NSString *)otherButtonTitle > > informativeTextWithFormat:(NSString *)informativeText, ... > > (http://bit.ly/d1JIeQ) > > Now, the interesting part here is the ", ..." at the end. It takes variable > arguments at the end that work as formatting arguments for informativeText, > eg. sprintf(informativeText, ...). > > In MacRuby, this is invalid syntax: > > NSAlert.alertWithMessageText("Delete?", > defaultButton:"Delete", > alternateButton:"Cancel", > otherButton:nil, > informativeTextWithFormat:"delete %d people?", > employees.count) > > > Surely, in this case it can be worked around with: > > NSAlert.alertWithMessageText("Delete?", > defaultButton:"Delete", > alternateButton:"Cancel", > otherButton:nil, > informativeTextWithFormat:"delete #{employees.count} people?") > > And I can also call it as: > > NSAlert.send( > > :"alertWithMessageText:defaultButton:alternateButton:otherButton:informativeTextWithFormat:", > "Delete?", "Delete", "Cancel", nil, "delete %@ people?", employees.count) > > but I was wondering if this is a known limitation in MacRuby's method call > syntax. > > So, is it known? Is there a plan to do anything about it? > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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