From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-05-25T09:42:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby programming challenges and riddles?

Drew Olson wrote:
> Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
>> puts *1..100 # will print each on a new line
> 
> Cool! How does this work? What's going on behind the scenes?

* is the splash operator, it expands an array to a list, if the object 
is not an array it will call .to_a on it
so the above is virtually the same as doing:
puts 1, 2, 3, ..., 100

Regards
Stefan

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