From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-12-28T05:41:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Handling of arbitrary length arrays in arguments to printf builtin

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Hi --

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Paulo K=C3=B6ch wrote:

> I guess you'll have to select the elements from the array.
>
> AFAIK, the Array#* in only used to pack and unpack arrays into
> argument lists (and other kinds of lists).

Keep in mind that the unary * operator is different from the Array#*
method, which multiplies arrays:

   [1,2,3] * 2 =3D> [1,2,3,1,2,3]


David

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