From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-23T20:01:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby "star".... what's it?

Hi --

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, 7stud -- wrote:

> Depending on the context the * means:
>
> a) replace an array with its individual elements
> b) gather individual elements into an array

It's changed in 1.9. * on the left no longer has the same "un-array"
semantics.

>> a = [1]; a
=> [1]
>> *a = [1]; a
=> [1]

I'm kind of drawing a blank on why this change was made.


David

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