From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T04:08:11+09:00
Subject: Re: What does *var mean?

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quoth the Chih-Chao Lam:
> Apologies for a newbie ruby question:
>
> I know an asterisk can precede a parameter in the argument list of a
> method definition as in
>
> def varargs(arg1, *rest)
>

def varargs(arg1, *rest)
  puts arg1
  rest.each |arg|
    puts arg
  end
end

> varargs(one, two, three, four, five)
one
two
three
four
five
>

Really, it just accumulates a variable amount of arguments and presents the=
m=20
in the function as a list.=20

**kwargs will collect them in a hash.

> Thanks,
> chao

=2Dd
=2D-=20
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
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