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From: andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips  289 8712)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: gadgets in 2.0
Keywords: gadgets 2.0
Message-ID: <609@teslab.lab.OZ>
Date: 9 May 90 07:45:37 GMT
References: <1990May6.183020.17956@calgary.uucp> <5185@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au (Andrew Phillips  289 8712)
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In article <5185@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>And Pascal and Modula2 can indeed call routines that have an arbitrary
>number of arguments.  Consider "writeln()", for example.

This is incorrect.  Writeln() is not a real function/procedure but is
part of the Pascal language.

There is also a problem for C in that although C allows a variable
number of parameters some compilers have a maximum limit (e.g. 20).

Andrew.
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