From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-05-08T02:21:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Testing for a class existence

In article <1052319883.385720.937.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "Re: Testing for a class existence"
>    on 03/05/07, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:
>
>|Spaces don't seem to matter:
>
>Double parentheses will do.
>
>  ruby -v -e 'p defined?((a,b=1,2))'
>  ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-06) [i686-linux]
>  "assignment"
>
>Multiple assignments can not appear in argument lists.
>
>							matz.
>

This is a change in 1.8, right?  It apparently used to work in 1.6.x.

What was the reason for the change?

Phil