From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T08:34:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Compound Parallel Operators

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> (I didn't see an RCR for this, and my lazy 60s of searching didn't find
> any discussion about it. If it's been discussed before, just say so and
> I'll go hunt for the discussion properly.)
>  
> Ruby allows parallel assignment:
> a,b,c = x,y,z
>  
> Ruby interprets compound operators:
> a *= x
> as
> a = a * x
>  
> Wouldn't it be nice if all compound operators worked with parallel
> assignment?
> a,b,c *= x,y,z
> would thus be interpreted as
> a *= x
> b *= y
> c *= z

I brought this up once... but there was some Good Reason it didn't
work that way.


Hal