From: "Gennady F. Bystritsky" <gfb@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T06:54:29+09:00
Subject: Re: v.polar = rho, theta


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From: "Paul Brannan" <pbrannan@atdesk.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: v.polar = rho, theta


> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:09:17AM +0900, Hans Fugal wrote:
> > But it struck me that defining polar=(rho,theta) would be more
> > ruby-like, and I expected to call it like so: v.polar = 1, 3.14
> > That doesn't work, though.
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> Is there a reason why Ruby doesn't treat this case like like it treats
> multiple assignment to a variable?

It does treat it the same way as multiple assignment to a variable - it
passes a single array argument. However initial example defined polar= as
accepting 2 arguments. That's why it did not work.

Gennady.

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