func_get_arg

  • We can use variable arguments in Ruby using the glob operator (*). By prefixing a parameter in your method definition with this operator, you tell the method to combine all remaining arguments for the method into an array for that argument. We can get specific elements of this array of arguments like we do with func_get_arg by simply specifying the index of the argument we need.

    PHP

    function name()
{
    return $firstName = func_get_arg(0);
}
 
print name('joe', 'rubenstein');
// => joe

    Ruby

    def name(*names)
  first_name = names[0]
end
 
puts name("joe", "rubenstein")
# => joe

    see also

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