Re^3: Good use for prototypes. On methods no less!

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OK. If you're considering this in the context of novice users, I would say, please don't do this. The error you get is going to be misleading:

Too many arguments for Thing::hack at ./proto-method line 16, near "1)
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Execution of ./proto-method aborted due to compilation errors.
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If your goal is to help novice users, this seems to me not to be the a good idea, as the error says nothing about the actual problem. I don't think that this idea will help anyone, except in the sense that calling the method as a function will fail, unless they pass it no args.

Sorry. I've got no alternative suggestion, but I don't like this idea.

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Re^4: Good use for prototypes. On methods no less! by polymorpheus (Novice) on Jun 05, 2012 at 13:04 UTC
Good point about novices. If the error message actually said "method called as a function" then it might be nice. I think I will give up on this one. Thanks for all the feedback!	[reply]

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