From: Sarah Allen <sarah@...>
Date: 2010-04-14T13:01:30+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought spaces didn't matter around operators

David A. Black wrote:
> Here's another interesting space/non-space case:
> 
>    >> def m(*args); "hi"; end
>    => nil
>    >> m *10
>    => "hi"
>    >> m * 10
>    => "hihihihihihihihihihi"
> 
> In m *10 the * is the unary *, while in m * 10 it's the infix
> operator/method *.
> 
> 
> David

And what, may I ask, it the unary * operator?  Is it what I've heard 
Rubyists call the "splat" operator that you use in var args?  How and 
why would you override it?

Thanks so much for indulging my pursuit of arcane Ruby knowledge :)

Sarah

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