From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-07T14:55:32+09:00
Subject: Re: returning multiple values from a method

Hi,

In message "returning multiple values from a method"
    on 02/02/07, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:

|What is the reason for the inconsistency?

Although it might not follow your expectation, they are consistent,
because they are just different.

  a = foo()            # single assignment
  a, = foo()           # retrieve first element
  a, b = foo()         # first and second
  a, *b = foo()        # first and rest

							matz.