From: Gaston Garcia <gaston.garcia@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T03:16:02+09:00
Subject: ruby quiz question '*' on the initialize parameters

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Hi everyone:

On the ruby quiz called: Banned Words (#9), I'm looking at the class posted=
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there and I came up with something I had never seen before (probably becaus=
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I'm really new to Ruby)

class LanguageFilter
 def initialize( *banned_words )
 @banned_words =3D banned_words.flatten.sort
 @clean_calls =3D 0
 end

end

I had never seen this:

def initialize(*banned_words)

what does that * do? Does it mean I can send as many parameters as I want?

Thanks to all.


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-gaston
http://www.hermanobrother.com/blog/

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