I have often wanted this but it is a bit "sloppy". Jeff may have a reason for not allowing this.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Spencer Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > When a function returns a tuple, you can omit the parentheses from the > target variables, like: > > a, b = foo() > > instead of > > (a, b) = foo() > > But it seems you can't when setting up a for loop: > > for i, x in enumerate(all_my_foos) > # do something > end > # throws an "syntax: invalid iteration specification" > > But it works if I put parens around "i, x". Is this intentional? It's not > a big deal to put the parens, but it did trip me up a bit as I expected the > same behavior as normal function application, and coming from Python I'm > very used to using enumerate in this way. > > -s >
