From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T21:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to"
    on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:21:23 +0900, Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> writes:

|Matz, I don't understand why "to_a was too general." What's wrong with
|splatting based on to_a? I see an analogy with block-calling (&) with
|to_proc.
|
|Are you saying this shouldn't work (with hashes or other enumerables)?
|
|    x, y = *{1 => 2, 3 => 4}  #=> [[1, 2], [3, 4]]

It should be x={1 => 2, 3 => 4}, y=nil, I think, and 1.9 behave so.

|Or would Enumerable's to_splat do the same as to_a; in which case, what
|is the usefulness of the added flexibility?

No.  Enumerable does not have to_splat.

							matz.