From: John Feezell <JohnFeezell@3wplace.com>
Date: 2002-11-14T05:35:21+09:00
Subject: Re: *variable works in asssignment?

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11/13/2002 1:18:06 PM, Eric Schwartz <emschwar@fc.hp.com> wrote:

>I was trying to figure out how to do the equivalent of (in Perl):
>
>$one, $two, @rest = @ARGV
>
>and it seems that I can do:
>
>one, two, *rest = ARGV
>
>in Ruby.  However, I can't see this documented anywhere (I looked in
>the pickaxe, and in the manual shipped with Debian's ruby-manual
>package), and I wanted to make sure I could rely on it working in
>future versions of Ruby.
>
>I do see it used in method parameters:
>
>def method(one,two,*rest)
>   #...
>end
>
>But nobody seems to say that you can do it generically in assignments,
>and I'm always a tad nervous about using what appear to be
>undocumented language features.
>
>If this is documented, of course, a pointer to where would be nice.
>Note: Source code doesn't count. :)
>
>-=Eric
>-- 
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>