• Craig Black (10/12) Jun 05 2002 I think perhaps you are still thinking only of printing strings to the

"Craig Black" <cblack ara.com> writes:

Walter wrote:
 The proper way to do it would be to create a variant type, and then have
 variable parameter lists be passed as arrays of variants.

I think perhaps you are still thinking only of printing strings to the
console.  There are many other applications for variable parameters. IMO
variable parameters is a very fundamental language feature that provides
many new capabilities.  Limiting variable parameters to variants would force
"boxing" and "unboxing".  This would, in many cases, obfuscate syntax, and
decrease performance.

However, I am not against the inclusion of a fundamental variant type into


--Craig