From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T05:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Code syntax comma usage

Tom Link wrote:
>>When you enter "var1, var2, var3 = 5" in irb, you'll get [5] as return
>>value. It seems the 5 gets silently converted into an array here.
>>Interesting.
>
> 
> 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.

The value of the assignment is written as 5, so if you end up with [5] 
then it seems logical that something got converted.
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