From: "Marcin Miel¿yñski" Date: 2003-04-27T04:10:06+09:00 Subject: Re: can you guess Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote in news:20030426185323.GA6800 @student.ei.uni-stuttgart.de: > > % args > is read as a string literal, ie. > % args <=> "args" <=> %{args} <=> %Q{args} > ^ ^ > spaces > > Maybe spaces shouldn't be allowed as delimiters. > good idea! try this... class String def expand(*args) % args end end