From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2006-10-16T23:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: another basic question about sorting w/o the sort method

Robert Klemme wrote:
> No, it's the normal assignment operator - if you have multiple values
> left and right it's also called "parallel assignment" IIRC.  I do not
> know another programming language that has this feature.

FWIW, Lua supports parallel assignment:
Lua 5.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2006 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> a=1;b=2
> a,b=b,a
> =a
2
> =b
1
> numbers = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }
> a,b,c = unpack( numbers )
> print( a, b, c )
1       2       3