From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T13:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Silly idea: map-like method produces array

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:


> OK, I was thinking today about "stacked"
> assignment:
> 
> x, y, z = 0
<...>
>   a, b, c, d, e = 5 * []
>   s1, s2, s3 = 3 * "hello"

% irb
>> x, y, z = [0] * 3
=> [0, 0, 0]
>> a, b, c, d, e = [[]] * 5
=> [[], [], [], [], []]
>> s1, s2, s3 = ["hello"] * 3
=> ["hello", "hello", "hello"]

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eban