From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-01-09T20:04:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Construct [*nil] works differently in 1.6 and 1.8

Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> writes:

> Hi Gennady,
>
> you can use the method "Array":
>
>    p Array( [ 1, 2, 3, ] )
>    p Array( "x" )
>    p Array( nil )
>
> results in
>
>    [1, 2, 3]
>    ["x"]
>    []
>
> Regards,
> Pit

Hello,

do you maybe also know a nice trick to make it a single-element Array
iff it's not already an Array?

    irb(main):001:0> Array("foo\nbar")
    => ["foo\n", "bar"]

This "feature" gives me the creeps.

Christian Neukirchen
<chneukirchen@gmail.com>