Objective-D, reflective programming, dynamic typing

[grauzone]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Eljay <eljay at adobe.com> wrote:
> 
>> Alas, I'm not sure how to pass the variadic arguments through to another variadic function, with this
>> signature:
>> void perform(...)
> 
> You can't.  D's varargs suck.
> 
>> I also tried using Variant array -- wherein I expected automagic Variant packaging (assuming I
>> understood the documentation correctly) -- but that did not work (could be PEBKAC):
>> void perform(Variant[] ar ...)
> 
> This is *exactly* what I'd like to replace D's varargs.  I've
> suggested it several times.

The Gods are saying that varargs suck too much for fixing them, and that 
you should use compile time varargs (with tuples) instead.