From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-04-28T16:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Semantics of Multiple Values (updated RCR)


On Apr 28, 2004, at 12:14 AM, gabriele renzi wrote:

> il Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:35:09 +0900, Jean-Hugues ROBERT
> <jean_hugues_robert@yahoo.com> ha scritto::
>
>> Rather than allowing x, y == 1, 2, I would prefer a more
>> general x, y =~= 1, 2 whose semantic is richer due to the
>> fact that it may end up assigning either x, y or both if
>> they don't exist already (or if they were unbound/freed).
>
> oh, please no more obscure operators.
> I think little people here would like this route when in the future we
> found ourself using perl6-ish stuff like "@a >>=:=<< @b" :)

Oh, but it would pretty up the language so much!

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  LL ((z)) JJ