From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-08-26T07:07:38+09:00
Subject: Re: What does *var mean?

Hi --

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, darren kirby wrote:

> 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 them
> in the function as a list.
>
> **kwargs will collect them in a hash.

When you say "will"... do you mean in the future?  Is that documented
somewhere?  I can't puzzle out the reasoning behind it.


David

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