From: dagbrown@... (Dave Brown)
Date: 2003-08-21T15:52:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Star in case statements

In article <moY0b.1769$K44.1567@edtnps84>,
Martin DeMello  <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
: Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
: > I just noticed something that I either didn't know
: > or just forgot. :)
: > 
: > You can use the *array notation to specify values
: > for the when clause in a case statement:
: 
: Very neat! I was gratified when I first discovered you could splat a
: range too (as in a = *(1..10)).

This is weird though:

    irb(main):001:0> *(1..10)
    SyntaxError: compile error
    (irb):1: syntax error
            from (irb):1
    irb(main):002:0> a=*(1..10)
    => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
    irb(main):003:0> 

I wonder why that does that.

--Dave
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