APPLY should raise an error on excess arguments

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Submitted by: fork

At time of writing, APPLY will fill in NONE for unspecified arguments or refinements. It will also tolerate too many. So in the test suite, the following is expected to succeed:

1 == apply func [a] [a] [1 2]

As APPLY is already somewhat brittle in terms of corresponding to the order in which refinements appear in the function spec, this "laxness" only makes it worse. It likely represents a misunderstanding or error. Raising an error would be preferable.

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^{Imported from: CureCode [ Version: r3 master Type: Wish Platform: All Category: Unspecified Reproduce: Always Fixed-in:none ]
Imported from: metaeducation#2237}

Comments:

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Rebolbot added the Type.wish on Jan 12, 2016

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Ladislav commented on Feb 6, 2016:

Actually, I found a use for APPLY being able to tolerate excess arguments. It is not true that it is always an error to supply more arguments. For an example, see #2193.

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