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Feature #9553

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Make argument validation routine of a method an object

Added by Anonymous over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

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[ruby-core:60995]

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Ruby methods have their acceptable argument configurations specified by special syntax. As argument fields has gotten more complex, simple #arity is no longer enough to capture the type of the argument field. I suggest making this argument validation routine (so far defined by special syntax) introspectible, and reusable for the purposes of metaprogramming. One possibility would be to have eg. ArgumentValidator and/or UnboundArgumentValidator objects just like we have method and unbound method objects. Then eg. Method#argity / Proc#argity would return that ArgumentValidator or UnboundArgumentValidator. The purpose of this post is not to suggest the final solution, but to bring attention to the problem of non-oo nature of built-in argument validation and the growing need to do something about that.

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