From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T05:09:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How to pass a group of arguments?

On 2/20/06, anne001 <anne@wjh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Thank you for your responses.
> I had found the use of * to define a method, so the method will accept
> variable number of arguments.
>
> But I think that is different from the usage Gregory Brown and Daniel
> Harple suggested. There the * is used in front of an array passed on to
> a function already defined.

sandal@harmonix:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> def something(a,b,c)
irb(main):002:1> puts "#{a},#{b},#{c}"
irb(main):003:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> something(*[1,2,3])
1,2,3