What is this syntax?

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Lähettäjä: David Corbin <dcorbin@machturtle.com>
Aihe: Re: What is this syntax?

> "David Corbin" <dcorbin@machturtle.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:200502131241.13403.dcorbin@machturtle.com...
>
> > def foo(*)
> > end
> >
> > What does the "*" mean?
>
> Any number of arguments

And the foo method just can't refer to them?

Right. Technically, I think, it creates an Array of the arguments but
doesn't assign the array to a variable:

def foo(*a)
end

The difference is that here the Array is bound to a for you to access.

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On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:54 pm, Robert Klemme wrote: