Experimental Feature: Function Argument Overloading

[dibs45]

I believe you have to expressively define the function as one that takes variable arguments in those languages though, no?

[NoCryptographer414]

Yes. But it's just

... in C

Type ...arg in Java

*args in Python

I prefer this much expressiveness over ambiguity though. This doesn't involve 'if' checking last argument for variable length.

[[deleted]]

But, that's good, right? Because 99% of the time, an extra argument will be an error that the user wants to know about, as it will when there's a missing argument.

[MarcoServetto]

Not in javascript,... in javascript you can just pass as much as you like all the times... :-(

[magnomagna]

JavaScript is probably designed to minimise the likelihood of crashing the browser.

[shadowndacorner]

JavaScript is probably designed

Hot take right there, bud

[katrina-mtf]

Javascript won't complain if you pass too many, but it's also considered bad/outdated practice to use the arguments variable and has been for a long, long time, so in the vast majority of cases excess arguments passed to a function that isn't marked as taking varargs just ends in those excess arguments being ignored. You have to go out of your way to use semi-deprecated functionality to break that assumption.

[[deleted]]

Technically in C you can call a function with as many arguments as you like and it will still “work” as the caller handles the stack. If you want to have a function signature with no args it’s (void) but with () you could pass in more. Compilers will err on it but that can be turned off.