From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-05-20T22:16:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple return and parallel assignement

On May 20, 2005, at 8:05 AM, jean wrote:

> What do you think about? (Perhaps I don't know enough Ruby and  
> there is
> a way to do the same thing in Ruby ;-) )
>
> Thinking at Ruby I'd like that if I call mymethod defined above with
> only a variable it gets the first value:

Probably not what you want, but:

irb(main):001:0> def mymethod
irb(main):002:1>     return 1, 2
irb(main):003:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> one = mymethod.first
=> 1

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II