From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-05-20T23:38:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple return and parallel assignement

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 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.

I think this helps point out that mymethod is not returning multiple 
values, but a single value (an Array object) that contains multiple values.

James
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