From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-05-22T06:35:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple return and parallel assignement

David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> 
> It's hard, I find, to come up with an exact description of what the
> unarr?ay (unary unarray) operator does that fits every case.  The
> closest I've come is: *a = x means: a gets assigned that which, when
> stripped of one level of array-ness, is x.  Thus:

And a simple rule of thumb to 'implement' it is: every time you remove a
* on one side of the =, add a [] to the other side.

*a = 1,2 --> a = [1,2]
*a = *[1,2] --> [a] = [[1,2]] --> a = [1,2]

etc.

martin