From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2012-01-31T21:38:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple assignment in conditional

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
> # The following causes a SyntaxError: multiple assignment in conditional.
> if (a, b = foo)
>  puts a
> end

because it's a parallel assignment and ruby would not know which to
check, a or b, no?

try eg,

  a,b=true
or
  a,b,c=1

kind regards -botp