I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it either. Just letting you know the embarrassment is distributed and not all on your shoulders :)
On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:33:21 AM UTC-6, Gray Calhoun wrote: > > 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> >> 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! >>> >> >>
