From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T21:51:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to

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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, matz wrote:

>    * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to
>      prepare splat values as an array.
>    * array.c (Init_Array): define to_splat.
>    * range.c (range_to_splat): new method.
>    * enumerator.c (enumerator_to_splat): ditto.

Reminds me of "List Context" in Perl.

I thought that pretty much everybody was against that feature of Perl.

Maybe it's not so much like List Context, but still, it looks like=20
hairsplitting: why would one make a distinction between making an array=20
and... making an array?

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