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On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:02:38 +0000 (UTC), kj <no.email@please.post>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
> As far as I can tell (admittedly I'm no Java expert, and have not
> programmed in it since 2001), to implement a Java method with n
> optional arguments, one needs at least 2**n method definitions.
> Even if all but one of these definitions are simple wrappers that
> call the one that does all the work, it's still a lot of code to
> wade through, for nothing.
>
	Does this apply?

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5.0/docs/guide/language/varargs.html
 
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