Function - Adobe ActionScript 3 (AS3 ) API Reference

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/Function.html

The interface to Function seems like a heavily edited API that was meant for reflection, and that certainly leaves room for improvement. A function with n arguments and a ...rest parameter still yields a length of n. An added Boolean somewhere? And how about the types of the parameters and the return type of the function itself?

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