RE: ALPHA-TEST release of LambdaMOO version 1.8.0alpha6

• Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:12:19 PST
• From:
  Roger Crew <rfc@microsoft.com>
• Cc: "MOO-Cows@parc.xerox.com" <MOO-Cows@parc.xerox.com>
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>   Added `scattering assignment' expression, ...
>   A scattering assignment expression looks like this:
>	{ TARGETS } = EXPR
>   where TARGETS is a comma-separated list of places to store elements of 
the
>   list that results from evaluating EXPR.  ...
>   ...
>   Finally MOO has a convenient mechanism for naming verb arguments, etc...

yes!!!  

Is there a reason (i.e., aside from time pressures) 
that you're not allowing

     { TARGETS }

to itself be a target, i.e., in which the corresponding list element from 
the 
right hand side is itself expanded and assigned in a similar fashion, 
thus allowing arbitrary list structures on the left, e.g.,

   {a, {b, c}, d} = {1, {2, 3}, 4}

to assign b=2 and c=3  ?

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