Re: Repeated *parameters*?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "Richard Quadling" <rquadling@googlemail.com> was heard to say:
| 2008/7/18 Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>:
|
|> I just noticed that methodparam has @rep. Does this make any sense, or
|> is it an editorial accident? I can't think of any languages for which
|> it makes sense.
|
| req (required) or rep (repeat).
|
| Many languages allow a variable number of arguments. If the argument type is
| generic, then rep="repeat" would be a valid way to represent that.

I suppose. Funcsynopsis has varargs for this though. I guess
methodsynopsis doesn't have anything similar. Maybe it's ok, it just
struck me as weird. What would it mean to say

 <methodsynopsis>
   <methodname>foo</>
   <methodparam>
      <parameter>param1</>
   </methodparam>
   <methodparam rep="repeat">
      <parameter>param2</>
   </methodparam>
   <methodparam>
      <parameter>param3</>
   </methodparam>
  ...

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                                          norm

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