http://www.vidul.com/articles/2008/02/12/scalar-array-context en-us 40 <b>Perl</b> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_perl "> $a = (&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c&quot;); # $a is &quot;c&quot; - the last element ($a) = (&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c&quot;); # $a is &quot;a&quot; - the first element</code></pre></div> <b>Ruby</b> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_ruby "> <span class="ident">obj</span> <span class="punct">=</span> <span class="punct">[&quot;</span><span class="string">a</span><span class="punct">&quot;,</span> <span class="punct">&quot;</span><span class="string">b</span><span class="punct">&quot;,</span> <span class="punct">&quot;</span><span class="string">c</span><span class="punct">&quot;]</span> <span class="comment"># obj is Array - [&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c&quot;]</span> <span class="ident">obj</span><span class="punct">,</span> <span class="ident">b</span><span class="punct">,</span> <span class="ident">c</span> <span class="punct">=</span> <span class="punct">[&quot;</span><span class="string">a</span><span class="punct">&quot;,</span> <span class="punct">&quot;</span><span class="string">b</span><span class="punct">&quot;,</span> <span class="punct">&quot;</span><span class="string">c</span><span class="punct">&quot;]</span> <span class="comment"># obj is String - &quot;a&quot;</span></code></pre></div> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:12:00 -0700 urn:uuid:36d75a0e-9bab-4684-a3a6-abd63e23e314 root http://www.vidul.com/articles/2008/02/12/scalar-array-context programming Ruby Perl