Jira (PUP-2894) lvalue comma asignment should splat* an array

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: lvalue comma asignment should splat* an array This request is perfectly reasonable as there is no mechanism to lift values into variables. The same cannot be achieved with iteration as assignment inside of a lambda creates a variable in a local scope. The only alternative is to do a series of assignments like this: $result = split_titles(...) $title = $result[0] $vhost = $result[1] ... I can imagine two ways to lift; with an array (assignment in order), and a hash (assignment by name). There is no reason to involve splatting, since it is not possible to do: LHS = 1,2,3 And thus it is meaningless to do: [$a, $b] = *$x The implementation of this is quite trivial and does not require a grammar change. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2894 lvalue comma asignment should splat* an array when using the future parser, it allows for comma separated statements, and assignment to occur in these. However, I would like to "splat" an array, using a similar syntax which currently is not supported {code} $input = 'example.org:www:filters:gzip text/html' $title, $vhost, $valve, $filter = split_titles($input) notice("\ntitle: ${title}\nvhos... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.