From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-07-28T22:10:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for Ruby 2.0

On Jul 28, 2005, at 5:03 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:


> Lately I've found myself using pseudo-anonymous variables a lot, e.g.,
> something like this:
>
> [[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4]].each{ |first, _| fs << first }
>
> The idea is that I'm not interested in the second part of the internal
> arrays, only the first.
>

Perl solves this by allowing you to assign to undef:

$ perl -e '($one, undef, $two) = split " ", "1 2 3"; print "$one $two 
\n"'
1 3

Just FYI.

James Edward Gray II