From: boris@...
Date: 2014-02-22T07:58:09+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:61005] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9553] Make argument validation routine of a method an object

Issue #9553 has been updated by Boris Stitnicky.


Even more precisely, I did not fail to notice, but rather forgot about it =). In any case, built in "Arguments" object would be nice.

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Feature #9553: Make argument validation routine of a method an object
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9553#change-45407

* Author: Boris Stitnicky
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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Ruby methods have their acceptable argument configurations specified by special syntax. As argument fields has gotten more complex, simple `#arity` is no longer enough to capture the type of the argument field. I suggest making this argument validation routine (so far defined by special syntax) introspectible, and reusable for the purposes of metaprogramming. One possibility would be to have eg. `ArgumentValidator` and/or `UnboundArgumentValidator` objects just like we have method and unbound method objects. Then eg. `Method#argity` / `Proc#argity` would return that `ArgumentValidator` or `UnboundArgumentValidator`. The purpose of this post is not to suggest the final solution, but to bring attention to the problem of non-oo nature of built-in argument validation and the growing need to do something about that.



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