That is the "accept FEWER arguments without throwing an error"-policy.
/ Peter Bortas
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2003-01-04 18:21: Subject: Too many arguments
That's how the pike-functions work, so it would be more consistent. And you do want to have that functionality for pike functions. It is convenient to be able to write main() and not main(int x, array y, array z).
/ Martin Nilsson (bygger parser