From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-04-28T08:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Semantics of Multiple Values (updated RCR)

Hi,

In message "Re: Semantics of Multiple Values (updated RCR)"
    on 04/04/28, Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@vleeuwen.org> writes:

|Isn't * an array to values converter?
|(like in method(1, *[2, 3, 4]))?

I don't think so, even with your proposal.  If * (splat operator) is
an array to values converter, 

  def func1(a,b)
    [a,b]
  end
  func1(1, *[2, 3, 4])

should give [1,2], unless values work like LIST in Perl.

|> |*  Comparing multiple values
|> |*  Unify operator
|> 
|> I have to confess I couldn't understand those two proposals, how they
|> behave, and how they are useful.
|
|The idea of comparing multiple values would be a kind of
|syntactic sugar.
|Instead of writing
|  x == 1 && y == 2
|you could write
|  x, y == 1, 2
|(which looks much clearer in my eyes).

Not for my eyes.  YMMV.
I don't feel right to mix comparison operands x, 1, and y, 2.

							matz.