From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T21:11:25+09:00
Subject: Re: List assignment syntax

Zsban Ambrus wrote:

> I'm a little dissatisfied with the list assignment syntax of ruby.
> On an example:
> 
>     irb(main):001:0> a = [2, [3, 5], 8]
>     => [2, [3, 5], 8]
> 
> This works:
> 
>     irb(main):002:0> x, (y, ), z = a
>     => [2, [3, 5], 8]

Personally, I would like being able to assign to nil in that case. I've 
seen "_" been used as a throw away assignment target, but that's just 
not as expressive as "nil", IMHO.