From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-02-17T21:25:54+09:00
Subject: Re: is it behaving strange ?

Hi --

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, hemant wrote:

> Take a look at these
>
>>> instruments = {'trombones' => 1, 'clarinets' => 2}
>>> p instruments.to_a
> [["trombones", 1], ["clarinets", 2]]
>>> p *instruments
> ["trombones", 1]
> ["clarinets", 2]
>
> Normally * uses to_a or to_ary, but certainly its more devious than it
> appears. And where exactly is this operator defined in ruby source
> tree? eval.c ?

I'm not sure I'm seeing what you're getting at in your example.  Isn't
that what you'd expect it to do?


David

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