On 5/16/06, Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/16/06, Bob Hiestand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm re-writing my cvscommand.vim plugin to handle both CVS and > Subversion version control systems. I'm currently implementing some > of the functionality through function references that define common > operations for each source control system in a dictionary specfic to > that system. I have a situation where I have a generic dispatch > function that identifies which dictionary to dereference to obtain the > function reference. > > The problem is that the function eventually called behind the > function reference may have any number of arguments. Therefore, the > dispatch function takes any number of arguments to pass through. This > leads to the actual call, which looks like this (all on one line): > > function! s:ExecuteVCSCommand(command, ...) > " find the proper functionMap dictionary, and then: > execute "return functionMap[a:command](" . join(map(copy(a:000), > "'\"' . v:val . '\"'"), ",") . ")" > > My question is whether there is a simpler way to pass an unknown > number of arguments from the current function to a function which > accepts a variable-length list of arguments.The only thing I can think of is rewriting target functions into accepting 1 argument which is a list. I don't find vim vararg mechanism easy to use in general.
Thanks, Yakov, classic case of not looking at it fresh and trying to adapt old code into a new infrastructure. That makes a great deal more sense. Thanks again, Bob
