Yeah, "splat" as a name for an auto-expanding thingy would be a novelty. Ruby for instance doesn't have anything like that, it has a splat _operator_ (asterisk) to expand a normal array, or conversely, capture several arguments in one parameter.
I'm not sure what should count as auto-expanding, but this works in Ruby: a, b = [1, 2] No extra operator is required in this case. -- /Jacob Carlborg
