Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!unmvax!bbx!bbxsda!scott From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: stdarg Message-ID: <1704@bbxsda.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 91 20:50:21 GMT References: <1991Feb5.145001.26837@hounix.uucp> <588@taumet.com> <1991Feb6.171144.7182@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Organization: Basis International, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 14 In article <1991Feb6.171144.7182@Neon.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes: >Probably a reasonable decision. But it does make it a pain to deal >with the third party software we use that is full of functions >that can take 0 or more arguments. Just curious: How does such a function know whether it was called with 0 or 1 argument without the aid of some external flag? Sounds like a botched up interface to me. -- Scott Amspoker | Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | This space available (505) 345-5232 | unmvax.cs.unm.edu!bbx!bbxsda!scott |