From: Love U Ruby <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-23T14:52:19+09:00
Subject: range is not assigning to the splat variable.

Why splat variable couldn't take in the below two code the "range" ->
(1..8)?

means why a gives []?

*a,b = (1..8)
#=> 1..8
b
#=> 1..8
a
#=> []

means why b gives []?

a,*b = (1..8)
#=> 1..8
a
#=> 1..8
b
#=> []

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