From: Matt Todd Date: 2006-08-13T11:27:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie at ruby - syntactic sugar for Range / Array _Why The Lucky Stiff calls it a splat. I like this because it's a very vivid description of a bug-swatter splatting the entrails of the array (or array-able) object out into separate, individual pieces. From something compact to its little pieces strewn out in order. M.T.