This is covered on p. 83 "Expanding Arrays in Method Calls." On 2/20/06, anne001 <anne / wjh.harvard.edu> wrote: > Thank you for your responses. > I had found the use of * to define a method, so the method will accept > variable number of arguments. > > But I think that is different from the usage Gregory Brown and Daniel > Harple suggested. There the * is used in front of an array passed on to > a function already defined. > > >