From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2003-10-25T04:16:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Struggling with variable arguments to block

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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]]]

irb(main):001:0> *a = 1,2
[1, 2]
irb(main):002:0> *a = [1,2]
[1, 2]
irb(main):003:0> *a = [[1,2]]
[[[1, 2]]]
irb(main):006:0> RUBY_RELEASE_DATE
"2003-08-04"
irb(main):007:0> RUBY_VERSION
"1.8.0"

This is using an RPM ruby binary versioned: ruby-1.8.0-1

ben@magneto% rpm -qi ruby                                                     ~
Name        : ruby                         Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 1.8.0                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Tue 05 Aug 2003 
11:17:30 AM EDT
Install Date: Thu 18 Sep 2003 01:02:38 PM EDT      Build Host: 
bugs.devel.redhat.com
Group       : Development/Languages         Source RPM: ruby-1.8.0-1.src.rpm
Size        : 136668                           License: Distributable
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 09 Sep 2003 04:53:41 PM EDT, Key ID 
fd372689897da07a
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>

Ben