[ruby-core:48446] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6841][Assigned] Shorthand for Assigning Return Value of Method to Self

Issue #6841 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Status changed from Open to Assigned
Assignee changed from mame (Yusuke Endoh) to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Target version changed from 2.0.0 to Next Major

It requires matz's approval.

My personal comment: I agree, in fact I have thought the same thing
(and as I recall, unak implemented a patch).
But "..= to_i" resembles a variable named `to_i'.  I wonder if matz
is interested or not.

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Feature #6841: Shorthand for Assigning Return Value of Method to Self
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6841#change-31774

Author: wardrop (Tom Wardrop)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: core
Target version: Next Major


=begin
Quite often in Ruby, I find myself doing something like: (({my_var[:foo][:bar] = my_var[:foo][:bar].to_i})) or (({obj.foo.bar = obj.foo.bar.to_i})). Realising this, I thought of what would be a fairly nice shorthand syntax for this, which could be: (({my_var[:foo][:bar] .= to_i})). How this works should be pretty self-explanatory. The (({.=})) operator works exactly like any other assignment operator of this nature.

Would be nice to see this in Ruby 2.0. Wondering what others think of this?
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