Spec incorrectly claims that strings are treated as sequences in compound assignment

haberman commented 4 months ago

The spec contains this example in assignments:

[(a, b), (c, d)] = ("ab", "cd")

However, this statement is rejected by both Bazel and https://github.com/google/starlark-go

Bazel:

ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/haberman/bazel_workspace/test.bzl", line 27, column 8, in <toplevel>
        print(f())
    File "/Users/haberman/bazel_workspace/test.bzl", line 24, column 20, in f
        [(a, b), (c, d)] = ("ab", "cd")
Error: got 'string' in sequence assignment (want 2-element sequence)

starlark-go:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  test.bzl:27:8: in <toplevel>
  test.bzl:24:20: in f
Error: got string in sequence assignment

laurentlb commented 4 months ago

Thanks, the example looks wrong to me, it should be removed.

joydeep049 commented 3 months ago

Hello! I would like to contribute. Can anyone tell me how to get started?

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Spec incorrectly claims that strings are treated as sequences in compound assignment #281