From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-06-18T04:55:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Array#push(empty array expanded) => no exception

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ahoward" <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [RCR] Array#push(empty array expanded) => no exception


> > > > Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> > > >> Can it be made legal to push/unshift with zero arguments ?
> > > >
> > > > Already fixed in (later) versions of 1.8
> 
> guess i eat my words - not the first time...
> 

If you think about it, it makes sense.

For one thing, what if a variable is passed in?
We don't want it to fail just because the array
is empty.

For another thing, consider what happens with
strings. foo = "value" + "" should not be
illegal, I think.

Hal