From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-08T09:33:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about array expansion in 1.7/1.8

Hi,

In message "Question about array expansion in 1.7/1.8"
    on 02/02/08, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:
|
|In the book "The Ruby Way" there is a section entitled "What's new in 
|1.8". On Page 534 in the bullet on Array Expansion it says:
|
|"Array Expansion: if you assign a = *[1], you now find that a is 1 (rather 
|than [1] as before)."

Yes.

  % ruby -ve 'a = *[1]; p a'
  ruby 1.7.2 (2002-02-06) [i686-linux]
  1

|irb(main):009:0* a = *[1]
|[1]
|irb(main):010:0> p a
|[1]
|nil
|irb(main):011:0> p a.type
|Array
|nil
|irb(main):012:0> exit
|[phill@jed bin]$ ./ruby -v
|ruby 1.7.2 (2002-02-07) [i686-linux]

I guess your *irb* is based on 1.6; check RUBY_VERSION within irb.

							matz.