I'm playing again with implementing the Hillegass book in MacRuby, and ran across this method:

   + (NSAlert *)alertWithMessageText:(NSString *)messageTitle
                       defaultButton:(NSString *)defaultButtonTitle
                     alternateButton:(NSString *)alternateButtonTitle
                         otherButton:(NSString *)otherButtonTitle              
           informativeTextWithFormat:(NSString *)informativeText, ...

   (http://bit.ly/d1JIeQ)

Now, the interesting part here is the ", ..." at the end. It takes variable arguments at the end that work as formatting arguments for informativeText, eg. sprintf(informativeText, ...).

In MacRuby, this is invalid syntax:

   NSAlert.alertWithMessageText("Delete?",
                  defaultButton:"Delete",
                alternateButton:"Cancel",
                    otherButton:nil,
      informativeTextWithFormat:"delete %d people?",
                                 employees.count)


Surely, in this case it can be worked around with:

   NSAlert.alertWithMessageText("Delete?",
                  defaultButton:"Delete",
                alternateButton:"Cancel",
                    otherButton:nil,
      informativeTextWithFormat:"delete #{employees.count} people?")

And I can also call it as:

   NSAlert.send(
     :"alertWithMessageText:defaultButton:alternateButton:otherButton:informativeTextWithFormat:",
     "Delete?", "Delete", "Cancel", nil, "delete %@ people?", employees.count)

but I was wondering if this is a known limitation in MacRuby's method call syntax.

So, is it known? Is there a plan to do anything about it?

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