From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-12-09T05:05:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Surprising(?) behaviour of the comma operator

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:32:03 +0900,
> Frank Schmitt wrote:
> 
>>I just stumbled over a (at least for me) surprising behaviour
>>of the comma (',') operator:
> 
> 
> Ruby has no comma operator like C.
> 
> 
>>  irb(main):003:0> a=1, b=2
>>  [1, 2]
>>  irb(main):004:0> puts a.class, b.class
>>  Array
>>  Fixnum
>>  nil
> 
> 
> If you really want to use multi-statement, use semicolon (;)
> instead.
> 

Correct of course. To clarify a little for the original poster,
the statement is equivalent to:

   a = [1, b=2]



Hal