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-rw-r--r--array.c14
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fc0fe9f713..da722d1e47 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Nov 14 17:36:22 2005 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+ * array.c (rb_ary_first): RDoc update from Daniel Berger
+ <djberg96@yahoo.com>. [ruby-core:06577].
+
Fri Nov 11 10:31:44 2005 Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.com>
* ext/socket/socket.c: Socket Documentation. [ruby-core:6580]
diff --git a/array.c b/array.c
index f16e0a663c..d14a49a716 100644
--- a/array.c
+++ b/array.c
@@ -715,12 +715,16 @@ rb_ary_at(ary, pos)
/*
* call-seq:
* array.first -> obj or nil
- *
- * Returns the first element of the array. If the array is empty,
- * returns <code>nil</code>.
- *
+ * array.first(n) -> an_array
+ *
+ * Returns the first element, or the first +n+ elements, of the array.
+ * If the array is empty, the first form returns <code>nil</code>, and the
+ * second form returns an empty array.
+ *
* a = [ "q", "r", "s", "t" ]
- * a.first #=> "q"
+ * a.first #=> "q"
+ * a.first(1) #=> ["q"]
+ * a.first(3) #=> ["q", "r", "s"]
*/
static VALUE