From: Kalman Noel <invalid@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T00:55:19+09:00
Subject: Re: '**' as hash splat?

Rick DeNatale:
> Robert Dober:
>> Kalman Noel:
>>> Ken Bloom:
>>>> Trans:
>>>>>   a = [2,1]
>>>>>   [3,*a]  #=> [3,2,1]
>>>> Since [] is a method,
>>>
>>> irb> method :[]
>>> NameError: undefined method `[]' for class `Object'
>>
>>  Array.instance_method :[]
> 
> But I think that Kalman's point wasn't that there are no :[] methods,
> which of course there are, but that the snippet
> 
>  [3, *a]
> 
> Isn't a method call but syntax.

Exactly.

Kalman