Re: Multiple assignments?

[haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)]

%$#@$#%$#@!!!!

you beat me to it.

> In general, (a b c)=something would assign the first element to a,
> the second to b, and the rest of them to c.

this is already in my development version of es.  it seems to work nicely,
and abstracts some out of function-calling into assignment and let and
local bindings.  (the equivalent for for bindings is different.)

and, yes, it ties in rather nicely with the new version of $&backquote.

by the way, the default version of %backquote assigns the status to the
variable bqstatus, which matches rc-1.5's behavior.

paul

ps:  i'm on a business trip right now, and i'm not sure when i'll be
home for more than a day or two, so i can't make any promises about
when the next version of es will be released.