From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2000-12-20T08:40:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7721] Ruby enhancement request

Because the format string for rb_scan_args() only uses single digits to
determine the number of required and optional arguments this means that you
can't have more than nine of either, right?

I am wrapping some C++ code for which several functions have more than nine
optional arguments (i.e. there are a bunch of arguments but most of them
have default values specified). I can work around this for now by simply not
exposing those last few arguments -- meaning that the user can't override
the default values. In practice this is not a big deal but ultimately it
would be nice for the argument list exposed to Ruby to be identical to that
used in the C++ code.

So I guess I'm requesting an improved version of this function
(rb_scan_args2?) that accepts an arbitrary number of required and optional
arguments.

Thanks!