From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2010-05-04T19:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: * splat error

Hi --

On Tue, 4 May 2010, Robert Dober wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Justin Collins <justincollins@ucla.edu> wrote:
> <snip>
> It is legal in 1.9 and illegal in 1.8

Ditto in arrays as well as parameter lists. (Kind of interesting that
1.8.7 also gives the useless literal error.)

$ ruby -ve '[1,2,*[3,4],5]'
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin9.8.0]
-e:1: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ']'
[1,2,*[3,4],5]
             ^
-e:1: warning: useless use of a literal in void context

$ ruby191 -ve 'p [1,2,*[3,4],5]'
ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin9.8.0]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]


David

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