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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: gadgets in 2.0
Keywords: gadgets 2.0
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Date: 6 May 90 22:19:15 GMT
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In article <1990May6.183020.17956@calgary.uucp> pepers@enme3.UUCP (Brad Pepers) writes:
[Speaking about varargs function calls]
>There is no
>way to declare a routine like that for Pascal, Modula2, etc... They just
>don't allow variable parameter lengths. So these wonderful new functions
>can't be used by anything but C and assem!!!

Wrongo...  Well actually, righto, but there are workarounds.. :)

>Why couldn't the gadget routines take a pointer to a variable length 2D
>array with tag,value pairs? This would be supportable in all languages.

They are, err, aren't err, okay  here's the story as I know it :)
There are two functional front-ends.  One is with varargs, the other
with array stuff.  Shmart, eh?
 
>Am I right about this or is there something I've missed??

Yes, Yes... :) :)
 
>    Brad Pepers

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me