Jon Pretty

@djspiewak yeah this surprises people roughly 100% of the time. Not convinced it's a feature.

@tpolecat @djspiewak however, a lot of languages support it so it shouldn't' be totally surprising, but i ascribe it more to dynamic langs

@rit @djspiewak do they? With the repeat-eval behavior on the RHS?

@tpolecat @rit For most languages, something like "val x, y = …" would be multi-return, not multi-evaluate.

@djspiewak @tpolecat @rit Particularly useful when doing something like val x, y, z = buf.readInt

@propensive @tpolecat @rit I discovered it like this: val port1, port2 = freePort()

@djspiewak @propensive @tpolecat @rit probably made that way to support the other abomination, Enumeration

@copumpkin @propensive @tpolecat @rit Oh I completely forgot about Enumeration. Does it really use that syntax? (please say no)