From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-16T05:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Struct.new vs class

On 5/15/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/15/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > is "*a" basically a keyword args flag that tells initialize() to take
> > > any and all args and just pass them up the chain to super()?
> > Except that it isn't keyword args. I like David Black's name for it:
> > the (un)array operator.
> I might have been thinking of a Python term...

You might have been. I believe that Python supports both *args and
**args, but I could be wrong. (**args is the keyword args flag.)

> so when you feed it to initialize() like that, it translates the list
> it's been given into an array and then initialize() picks that up and
> says "oh, ok, this is the sequence of args I'm expecting"?
>
> and you could also do
>
> def initialize (*arbitrarily_long_name)
> end

Close enough.

-austin
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