> Ideally, we'd like to support functions of arbitrary arity in Kotlin. In practice, a JVM method...

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[miha-x64]

Ideally, we'd like to support functions of arbitrary arity in Kotlin. In practice, a JVM method cannot have more that 255 parameters, so this is the limit for us as well.

But... vararg... from JVM's point of view is a single argument....

[karelpeeters]

Or autogenerate classes to wrap multiple arguments in. The possibilities are endless!

[josephivie]

I can just imagine a library with a function called everything where every argument is of type Any? that literally does all of the functionality of the entire library depending on how it's called.
It will haunt my nightmares.

[karelpeeters]

Was there actually any need for this change? I see the theoretical elegance, but has anyone ever filed an issue "I need 23 parameters"?

[stanislav.erokhin]

When you generate code sometime such situations came out.

[orangy]

@josephivie that’s basically how JavaScript works 😆