On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:28:46AM +0900, Zsban Ambrus wrote:
> None of these work, so I know of no simple way to ignore an array element:
>     irb(main):004:0> x, (), z = a
>     irb(main):005:0> x, (, ), z = a

Sorry, I've just found that this works instead:  x, (*), z = a

ambrus