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How does Groovy handle multiple assignment?
Groovy supports destructuring a list directly into several variables in one statement, like def (a, b, c) = [1, 2, 3], assigning each list element to the corresponding variable by position in a single line.
If the list has fewer elements than variables, the extra variables are simply assigned null rather than throwing an error, and if it has more elements, the extras are just ignored - the assignment doesn't require an exact length match.
This is commonly used with methods that return multiple values as a list, letting the caller unpack that list directly into named variables instead of manually indexing into a returned list afterward.
def (a, b, c) = [1, 2, 3] assigns:
If the list has fewer elements than variables in multiple assignment, extra variables get:
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