Oh, that's embarrassingly obvious in retrospect. Thanks!
On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:24:59 AM UTC-5, Jiahao Chen wrote: > > You can do > > v = f(1, 2, 3)[3] > > Thanks, > > Jiahao Chen > Staff Research Scientist > MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Gray Calhoun <gcal...@iastate.edu > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, if a function returns multiple values, is there an idiomatic >> way to discard all but (say) the 3rd value returned? For example: >> >> f(x, y, z) = return x^2, y^3, z^4 >> _, _, v = f(1, 2, 3) >> >> expresses the intent to only use the third value returned, but surely is >> inefficient. >> >> Thanks! >> > >
