From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-07T18:47:15+09:00
Subject: Re: returning multiple values from a method

Hi,

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

|>  a = foo()            # single assignment
|>  a, = foo()           # retrieve first element
|>  a, b = foo()         # first and second
|>  a, *b = foo()        # first and rest
|
|So the general principle is that you can avoid the '*' prefix if you are 
|assigning to one and only one variable.
|
|  a = foo()     # single assignment
|is the same as:
|  a* = foo()
|Correct?

You mean

  *a = foo()

Yes.

							matz.