On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, GOTO Kentaro wrote:

> In message "[ruby-talk:5634] Re: passing single or multiple strings."
>     on 00/10/17, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs / dmu.ac.uk> writes:

> >Not sure why *x didn't work there...  So is there a method corresponding
> >to this * prefixing? Methods does show a "*" method for Array:
> 
> I would beg apologies for my answer not suitable :<
> 
> The leading "*" is NOT a method. It is a feature of Syntax, that is,
> "*var" on a rhs or an argument is used for the multiple substitution.

OK, but I am beginning to think there should be a method for this.
It seems to me to be a useful thing to have.  Is there a compelling
reason not to have such a method?

	[useful examples trimmed]

Thank you, I will look at those in more depth.

> Hope this helps,
> 
> -- gotoken
> 
	Hugh
	hgs / dmu.ac.uk