From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-02-08T11:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about array expansion in 1.7/1.8

In article <1013127734.884190.5515.nullmailer@ev.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>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.
>

You're right, in irb:

irb(main):001:0> p RUBY_VERSION
"1.6.4"
nil

strange...

Phil