From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-10-25T03:05:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Struggling with variable arguments to block

Hi,

In message "Re: Struggling with variable arguments to block"
    on 03/10/25, dblack@superlink.net <dblack@superlink.net> writes:

|OK... that's a start :-)  Just so you know I wasn't being
|totally frivolous:
|
|  irb(main):001:0> *a = 1,2
|  => [1, 2]
|  irb(main):002:0> *a = [1,2]
|  => [1, 2]
|  irb(main):003:0> VERSION
|  => "1.8.0"
|
|so I guess this is a case where the irb parser hasn't caught up?

This is what I get

irb(main):001:0> RUBY_RELEASE_DATE
=> "2003-10-24"
irb(main):002:0> *a = 1,2
=> [1, 2]
irb(main):003:0> *a = [1,2]
=> [[1, 2]]
irb(main):004:0> *a = [[1,2]]
=> [[[1, 2]]]