arguments

Captured arguments to a function.

Argument Sinks

Like built-in functions, custom functions can also take a variable number of arguments. You can specify an argument sink which collects all excess arguments as ..sink. The resulting sink value is of the arguments type. It exposes methods to access the positional and named arguments.

#let format(title, ..authors) = {
  let by = authors
    .pos()
    .join(", ", last: " and ")

  [*#title* \ _Written by #by;_]
}

#format("ArtosFlow", "Jane", "Joe")

Spreading

Inversely to an argument sink, you can spread arguments, arrays and dictionaries into a function call with the ..spread operator:

#let array = (2, 3, 5)
#calc.min(..array)
#let dict = (fill: blue)
#text(..dict)[Hello]

Construct spreadable arguments in place.

This function behaves like let args(..sink) = sink.