From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-10T04:07:31+09:00
Subject: Re: so it seems there is no way to pass argument lists?

On Thursday 09 January 2003 11:39 am, dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> There's nothing you can't do, by way of passing arrays around; you
> just have to process them according to what you've asked Ruby to do.
> In this case, if you have:
>
>    def catchem(*args)
>
> then you have to get at args[0] to see the first argument -- which, in
> this case, is itself an array.  (It's not that the * in throwem does
> nothing; it's that the way Ruby passes multiple return values is by
> packaging them into an array.)
>
>   def throwem
>     return 1,2,3
>   end
>
>   def catchem(*args)
>     args[0].length
>   end
>
>   puts catchem(throwem)    # 3

understood. thanks. unfortunately, i was trying to make my code a little 
neater:

	catchem throwthrew throwem

rather then having to do:

	catchem *(throwthrew *throwem)

oh well, i'll figure out another way.

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net


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