From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T09:44:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax questions

Dňa Streda 22 Február 2006 12:27 Ross Bamford napísal:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:50 +0900, David Vallner wrote:
> > david@chello082119107152:~$ irb
> > irb(main):001:0> a, b = [1, 2]
> > => [1, 2]
> > irb(main):002:0> a
> > => 1
> > irb(main):003:0> b
> > => 2
> >
> > Might possibly change in 1.9 / 2.0 to reduce the ambiguity and general
> > mystery surrounding parallel assignment in strange cases. (Basically,
> > once the number of lvalues and rvalues differs, things get mildly funky,
> > and it's only downhill from there)
>
> Seriously? If that's true, I hope it never comes to pass. I don't think
> it's mysterious, and it's saved me a good few lines of code here and
> there...
>

Hmm, it's not on eigenclass, so I might have been hallucinating. IIRC, 
wherever I read about that, the change was related to when the last rvalue, 
or the only rvalue was an Array - the automagical expansion being removed or 
some such. Don't take this with any authority from me though.

David Vallner