From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2000-12-03T01:29:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6746] Re: behavior of Proc#arity?

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:6714] Re: behavior of Proc#arity?"
>     on 00/12/02, Steven Grady <grady@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> writes:
> 
> |(BTW, should <a = 1, 2> do the same magic as <proc {|a|}.call(1, 2)>?
> |Right now, it generates a parse error.)
> 
> Hmm, let me think about this for a while.
>                                                   matz.

Note that POLS can't be entirely satisfied here:

 a,b,c = 1,2,3    # a=1; b=2; c=3
 a,b   = 1,2,3    # a=1; b=2
 a     = 1,2,3    # a=1

but, proc{|a| a}.call(1,2) returns an array.  Would we want to
distinguish a=1,2 from a=[1,2] ?

  Mark