From: Mischa Fierer <f.mischa@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T22:46:44+09:00
Subject: Where is splat implemented? / How does it work?

Hi --

After a good amount of digging, I'm still not sure how [*[1,2]] ==
[1,2]. I understand what it does, but I want to know why.

I had originally assumed it was a normal method (like + or -), but it
appears to be implemented at a deeper level. It looks like rubinius does
something with cast_array. Ruby 1.8 does to_ary and ruby 1.9 does
to_splat. Where does this happen? to_ary says that it just returns self,
so how does self get exploded?

Short of reading eval.c, does anyone have any pointers?

Best,

Mischa
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