From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-08-31T12:23:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4684] Re: Function argument lists in parentheses?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:4683] Re: Function argument lists in parentheses?"
    on 00/08/31, Toby Hutton <thutton@vet.com.au> writes:

|def func arg
|  [0, 1, 2]
|end
|
|a, b, c = func "arg"   --> error
|a, b, c = func("arg")  --> ok
|a, b, c = (func "arg") --> ok
|
|Why doesn't the first form work?  Is it assigning 'func' to 'a' (or
|'c'?)  and then coming across '"arg"' and going WTF?

Oops, I forgot to allow them for RHS of multiple assignment.

							matz.