On Monday 03 September 2001 11:56 pm, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> The third value is a "peek" value. Do the runtime checking, but don't do
> any magic variable stuff. As a matter of fact, don't run any user-code at
> all. Simply return a true or false value if the arguments *would* match.
> (This allows us to check incoming coderefs, to see that they take the
> arguments that *they* expect. Similar to the whole "pointer to a function
> that takse a pointer to a function, and an int." Of course, no checking
> the return value. But they're supposed to handle your want()s.)
Er, scratch this. Blows up if the sub isn't prototyped. A much *better*
way is to make the prototype of any sub a property (trait) of that sub. We
can always query for a property.
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Bryan C. Warnock
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