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- Subject: Re: bug report: LUA compiler glitch
- From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:14:37 -0400
On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 06:22:27 PM Lars Doelle wrote:
> -- demonstrating the glitch on locals --
>
> local a
>
> a,a = 1,2 -- 'a' is assigned 1 and not 2
>
> check(a,"local ","a")
>
> -- This behaviour is at least unexpected, since the assignment
> -- intuitively should have the same meaning as
>
> a = 1
> a = 2
Can anyone explain the benefit of:
a, b = 1, 2
The only place I've seen the slightest benefit of that was when
capturing the return of functions returning multiple values.
Thanks
SteveT
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