From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-05-31T05:46:36+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP to Ruby (associative array to Hash)

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM, S.D <s.d@comcast.net> wrote:
> Great example! I don't quite understand the pointer(*) notation you are
> using in ruby. How would "Hash[*TYPES.select" differ from
> "Hash[TYPES.select"?

* is not pointer notation here.  One way to think about it is that it
takes an Enumerable object and turns it into a list of individual
objects, ala...

[1, 2, 3] #one thing

...becomes...

1, 2, 3 #three things

hth,
Todd