From: Gaston Garcia <gaston.garcia@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T03:24:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby quiz question '*' on the initialize parameters

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Thanks james, that's a beautiful thing that does!!!=20

-gaston

On 8/26/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 26, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Gaston Garcia wrote:
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> > 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 =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?
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> You guessed it. It will collect all passed parameters into an Array
> object and store that in the variable banned_words.
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> Welcome to Ruby.
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> James Edward Gray II
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-gaston

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