From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2005-09-12T03:01:33+09:00
Subject: Array#[]=

I'm writing a class representing a coordinate system, and I want to be 
able to give a point in the system a value (eg. a label). The problem is 
that the system can have a variable number of dimensions. If it just had 
three, I could write:

   def []= (x, y, z, value); end

But this being an N-dimensional coordinate system, I have to come up 
with something else. The most logical solution to me is this:

   def[]= (*coordinates, value); end

But this gives a syntax error. Am I way off base, or would it be useful 
if variable length argument lists could be written this way?


Daniel