From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T04:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Code syntax comma usage

Hi --

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Tom Link wrote:

>> It seems the 5 gets silently converted into an array here.
>
> The 5 doesn't get converted of course and [5] is the value of the
> assignment. At times, I find ruby's permissiveness slightly
> surprising.

That's been fixed in 1.9, so that a,b,c = 5 returns 5.


David

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