From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2000-10-19T01:59:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5671] Re: passing single or multiple strings.

In message "[ruby-talk:5664] Re: passing single or multiple strings."
    on 00/10/18, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
>OK, but I am beginning to think there should be a method for this.
>It seems to me to be a useful thing to have.  Is there a compelling
>reason not to have such a method?

To realize such mechanism, theoretically, an argument list should be
an object.  For example, `[1,2,3]' is an object but bare `1,2,3' is
not a object.  So, one couldn't define a method which returns `1,2,3'.
I think it is a reason.

By the way, ArgumentList introduces something like Python's `tuple'
and `apply' mechanism, parhaps.  I don't know how many rubyist agree
to this.

-- gotoken