From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-06-13T00:22:56+09:00
Subject: Re: a new block parameter/variable notation (Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356)

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Plus, I feel like it's a good chance to fix another Ruby's design flaw
> (i.e. lambda{|a|p a}.call(1,2,3) trap) at once.
> 

Is that the design flaw, or it is that

   a = 1,2,3

works?  It seems to me that the target (the lhs of an assignment or
the block parameter list) should determine whether you're performing a
parallel assignment. If that was the case, then your example above
wouldn't be a problem: your example would be a runtime error (too many
arguments) and mine would be a compile time error.

Cheers


Dave