anildigital/ruby-operators — pull request #4 by wowenstine (2014-08-05 19:31:00+00:00)
Title: *args

While I understand the historical/canonical use of "splat" I'd argue that the programming world rather be using "star" instead.

Ex. Google Trends - popularity of "* splat" searches vs "* star" searches in the programming category from 2004 onward.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=*%20splat%2C%20*%20star&cmpt=q

I know it's convention. But language evolves and I think this is a movement in the right direction.

What sounds better to you?

stargs
or
splargs

stararray
or
splarray

I thought we'd start small by just introducing the idea of "starargs/*args" and move from there.

Anyway, just a suggestion, and one that's probably outside of the scope of this project, since *args technically isn't an operator.

Cheers,

Will