Re: Multiple assignments?

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>]

| Conrad> Would a "null variable" be useful for list assignment?
| 
| As you say, it's not needed, so I think it should be left out.  But it
| would be nice if the implementation assigned to the variables in
| left-to-right order, so you could say
| 
|   (a b b c) = some-list
| 
| and you would have the same effect.

In ML the placeholder is named ``_''.  Since that's a legal shell
variable, one could use that.