From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T03:19:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby quiz question '*' on the initialize parameters

On Aug 26, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Gaston Garcia wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> On the ruby quiz called: Banned Words (#9), I'm looking at the  
> class posted
> there and I came up with something I had never seen before  
> (probably because
> I'm really new to Ruby)
>
> class LanguageFilter
>  def initialize( *banned_words )
>  @banned_words = banned_words.flatten.sort
>  @clean_calls = 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?

You guessed it.  It will collect all passed parameters into an Array  
object and store that in the variable banned_words.

Welcome to Ruby.

James Edward Gray II