Coming change to dropArguments?

[Rémi Forax]

On 04/06/2011 08:52 PM, Mark Roos wrote:
> In reading John's blog I saw a mention about changing dropArguments, 
> perhaps providing  a simpler version?
> I would like that.
>
> In my code dropArguments is used to drop all but the first argument 
> before a bind and test for the
> test branch of guardWtihTest.  Mine is a special case where all of the 
> arguments are the same type
> and 'this' is the first argument ( for the purpose of the test).
>
> It works fine except I have to create the array of types which are to 
> be dropped.  No big deal but it
> does seem like it adds complexity that is not necessary.
>
> In thinking about it what would be nice would be to have an 
> 'extractSingleArgument' like api.  Then
> my test branch would be;   extract, bind, test.  Very clear and inline 
> and I could chose the argument
> to compare.
>
> Perhaps there is something like this already?

You can also use the dasLropArguments that takes a List and use
Arrays.asList() followed by subList().

>
> thanks
> mark

cheers,
Rémi

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