Re: how to store multi return value provisionally?

[starwing <weasley.wx@...>]

2010/12/20 Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com>:
> Just put em into a table:
>
>> function r5() return 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 end
>> re = {r5()}
>> for k, v in ipairs(re) do print(k, v) end
> 1       1
> 2       2
> 3       3
> 4       4
> 5       5
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM, starwing <weasley.wx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/12/20 Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@gmail.com>:
>>> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 20:48 +0800, starwing wrote:
>>>> i.e. i want to do that:
>>>>
>>>> ??? = coroutine.resume(...)
>>>> if ???[1] then
>>>>      --- do something with ???[1...]
>>>> else
>>>>      --- do something with ???[1...]
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> but I don't want to use table, I just wonder it's possible to
>>>> implement it just operate the multi-values itself.
>>>
>>> Create locals from them. For example, if your thread yields 3 values:
>>>
>>> local ok, val1, val2, val3 = coroutine.resume(...)
>>> if ok then
>>>  -- do something with 'val1', 'val2', 'val3'
>>> else
>>>  -- 'val1' is the error message, process it
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> but what if I don't know the amount of multi return values?
>>
>>
>
>

e, there are something like this Vim code?
let a, b, c; d = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] --> a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = [4,5,6,7]

in a word, just use one structure/semantics to split a multi return
value into two parts, and we can store each part of values.