From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T13:32:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Silly idea: map-like method produces array

On Friday, January 24, 2003, 3:24:59 PM, Hal wrote:

> OK, I was thinking today about "stacked"
> assignment:

> x, y, z = 0


   >> a, b, c = 0
   => [0]
   >> a
   => 0
   >> b
   => nil
   >> c
   => nil


x = y = z = 0  does what you want though.  Or are we running different
Ruby versions?  1.6.8 for me.

And I don't see the point of doing this with non-numerical objects,
either.  One variable is enough.

Gavin