On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:49:51AM +0100, denker wrote: > > > On 15 Mar 2017, at 10:35, Peter Uhnak <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > is it possible to create a metalink on arbitrary amount of arguments? > > > > Right now the metaObject and selector must have the same number of > > arguments, e.g. > > > > MetaLink new > > metaObject: [ :object :selector :args | ... ]; > > selector: #value:value:value; > > arguments: #(object selector arguments) > > > > > > What I would like to have instead is something like... > > > > MetaLink new > > metaObject: [ :allArgs | ... ]; > > selector: #value:; > > arguments: #(object selector arguments) > > > > > > And then `allArgs` would either be an array with all the arguments, or > > maybe a Dictionary. > > > > Right now not… but it would be a nice addition. > > It could either use some magic (if the number of args requested are larger > then the number of args > of the selector it gives the rest as a dictionary). > > or, maybe better (less magic), this could be an option to be configured per > link: > > > MetaLink new > metaObject: [ :allArgs | ... ]; > selector: #value:; > arguments: #(object selector arguments) > options: #(argsAsDictionary) > > (which would allow #argsAsArray, too). > > Marcus
+1 for option, magic only brings suffering. :) Peter
