Backport #5212: [*nil] behaves diferently from 1.8.7 to 1.9.3

• Status: Closed
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[mathieu (Mathieu Rousseau)]

As to_a is to be obselete, i started to migrate my code and I found a problem. I did not quite know where to fill it in.

$ rvm use 1.8.7
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-linux]
$ irb
ruby-1.8.7-p352 :001 > [*nil]
=> [nil]

$ rvm use 1.9.3
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-07-31 revision 32789) [i686-linux]
$ irb
ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :001 > [*nil]
=> []

As nil.to_a returns [] and Array(nil) returns [] as well, I deduced that [*nil] in 1.8.7 should return [] as well.

Thanks

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Project changed from Ruby 1.8 to Backport187
• Status changed from Open to Closed