From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-04-01T08:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: How does ?A return the ASCII value of A ?

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On Mar 31, 2006, at 5:28 PM, coachhilton@gmail.com wrote:

> I can't quite figure out what  function asterisk, ie,
> *keys performs (leaving it out or executing *keys.zip(vals).flatten
> results in a ruby error and I don't see an explanation of this use  
> of *
> in the nutshell book.)  Can one of you enlighten me?

* is the unary unarray operator

basically what it does  delete the square brackets:

f(*[1,2,3]) -> f(1,2,3)


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