From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T07:41:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Introspection of method parameters

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 06:15 +0900, Keith Sader wrote:
> I'm trying to find out the number and name of a method's parameters. 
> I've googled for 'ruby method parameter introspection' and come up
> with almost nothing.  Is there a way to ask a method for the
> parameters it takes?
> 

I wrote a little thing [1] a while ago that lets you get the names of
method arguments, though with some limitations (no C methods, no
differentiation of block/splat args, etc).

> Could this way also show me the method overloads?
> foo()
> foo(param1)
> foo(param1, param2)
> etc.

Ruby doesn't have method overloading. 

[1]: http://roscopeco.blogspot.com/2006/02/callcc-vs-catch.html

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