From: Matthew Moss <matt@...>
Date: 2008-11-10T23:10:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing array instead of individual parameters?


On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Stefan Kruger wrote:

> [New to this fine language, from a Perl background]
>
> I expected (wrongly) the following to work -
>
> def myroutine(one, two, three)
>    puts "first: #{one} second: #{two} third: #{three}"
> end
>
> myroutine('brave', 'new', 'world') # as expected
>
> # The unexpected (to me)
>
> myparamlist = ['brave', 'new', 'world']
>
> myroutine(myparamlist) # fails
>
> So, my question is - is there a way of calling a routine expecting N
> parameters with a list containing N elements instead?


myroutine(*myparamlist)