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Re: Amount of Arguments per Method
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Re: Amount of Arguments per Method


  • Subject: Re: Amount of Arguments per Method
  • From: Jack Carbaugh <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:10:48 -0400

With that many arguments, i'd make a dictionary and pass only that dictionary. I understand your choice for not doing so however.

jack

On Jun 22, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Roland King wrote:

This still the longest one or has Apple outdone themselves since? 11 args, you really wouldn't want much more than this.

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WT wrote:
On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
clearly simplicity is important, but i'd like to know if there is a
limit for the amount of arguments which a method can handle?
I don't know if there's an upper limit, but I don't recall ever writing a method with more than 5 or 6 arguments. When I feel inclined to do otherwise, it typically means that there's a flaw in my design.
Wagner
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