From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2005-01-09T02:41:03+09:00
Subject: Re: List assignment syntax

On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:46 am, Martin DeMello wrote:
| Andrew Johnson <ajohnson@cpan.org> wrote:
| >   a = %w|help this foo perhaps bar does|
| >   puts a.values_at(-1,1,3,0)
|
| Is there any reason this can't be changed to a.at(1,2,3,4)? It'd make
| for a more consistent feel than specialcasing the one-argument case.
|
| martin

Problem is with what gets returned.

  a=[1,2,5,7]
  a.at(1) => 2
  a.values_at(1) => [2]

T.