Re: Multi-assign

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  • Posted by jeremy (admin) Nov 17, 2011
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I think we may be worrying about multiple uses of a character a bit too much. Just learn the rules of Euphoria and what special characters do. No need to make it overly complex but knowing that $ is "ignore" in a LHS is a pretty easy rule.

One thing people did not comment on is making this "new" ignore character valid in function calls for greater clarity: 

procedure greet(sequence name="World", sequence greeting="Hello") 
    printf(1, "%s, %s!\n", { greeting, name }) 
end procedure 
 
greet(,"Goodbye") -- pretty bad IMHO 
greet( $, "Goodbye") -- much nicer

Discussing this may have an effect on what character we choose.

Jeremy

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