From: Stedwick <philip.brocoum@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T12:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: What does *args do?


> I don't like this inconsistency in the language. Left is a list, right should be a list. Making it mate with both list and array can introduce tricky inconsistencies. I am in favor of dropping the latter and always'd require splat for multiple assignment. I think that is _too_ dynamic for an untyped, dynamic language like Ruby.

I think it makes perfect sense. If you are doing multiple assignments,
do this:

a = b = c = "hi"

But it's pretty cool to be able to do this:
a, b, c = ["hi", "hello", "wassa"]