[SERVER] scattering assignment (was: wishlists)

• Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:41:50 PDT
• From:
  Gustavo Glusman <bmgustav@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il>
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Faraday wrote:
>The new scattering arguement that pavel added to the 1.8 server,
>I am finding that the next line below it is almost always (with me) a
>typeof() check. It would be good to be able to have that done inside of
>the scattering arguement too.
...
>{o %(OBJ), desc %(STR, LIST)} = args;

This is actually a great idea. If possible, I'd like the syntax to be
something like:

{OBJ: o, STR LIST: desc} = args;

Just more readable. Let the parser work hard, not the human eyes. :)

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• Re: [SERVER] scattering assignment (was: wishlists)
• From: Michael Brundage <anomaly@u.washington.edu>

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