From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T08:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: v.polar = rho, theta

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 06:27:07 +0900, Paul Brannan wrote:
> 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.
> Is there a reason why Ruby doesn't treat this case like like it
> treats multiple assignment to a variable?

It is slightly odd -- but if polar=(rho, theta) were changed to
polar=(*rhotheta), then it would work as expected.

class VPtest
    def polar=(*a)
        p a.flatten
    end
    def initialize; end
end

v = VPtest.new
v.polar = 5, 6

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.07 at 18.48.46