Re: Multiple assignments?

[Conrad Hughes <chughes@maths.tcd.ie>]

[I've been "about to" switch to es for some time, but haven't as a result
of laziness and my love of job control, so am pretty ignorant of a lot
of the shell's intricacies; apologies if this has already been implemented]

Would a "null variable" be useful for list assignment?
e.g. (a null b c) = some-list

.. to dump the second element of some-list - it's unnecessary since you
could just as easily leave unwanted stuff in a real variable which you
never use; anyway: a random thought on first seeing the subject pop up.

Conrad