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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:58:49 +0200
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The RM has this to say about Argument_Count:

"If the external execution environment supports passing arguments to a 
program, then Argument_Count returns the number of arguments passed to 
the program invoking the function. Otherwise it returns 0. The meaning 
of �number of arguments� is implementation defined."

I'm wondering what that last sentence mean? Is the RM trying to tell me 
that Argument_Count cannot be trusted to yield the same result on 
different systems (Unix, BSD, Windows, Linux and so on)?

Or am I missing the point?

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Thomas L�cke

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