From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-11-20T02:57:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19994] Re: Splat nil

The last case is no longer hanging with the latest trunk; I don't know
if something was fixed or I got lucky or whether I had a bad build.

The behavior is still clearly different between 1.8 and 1.9.  Is this
expected?

Thanks,

Paul

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:10:12PM +0900, Paul Brannan wrote:
> I'm seeing differing behavior on 1.8 and 1.9.  Is this intentional?
> 
> cout@bean:~$ ruby -e 'def foo; return *nil; end; p foo'
> nil
> cout@bean:~$ ruby1.9 -e 'def foo; return *nil; end; p foo'
> []
> cout@bean:~$ ruby -e 'p *nil'
> nil
> cout@bean:~$ ruby1.9 -e 'p *nil'
> <sometimes hangs, sometimes returns immediately>
> 
> Paul
> 
>