From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2013-02-28T11:14:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53021] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6841] Shorthand for Assigning Return Value of Method to Self

(13/02/28 6:16), ���� ������� wrote:
> =begin

You can't write in RD mode via e-mail.

> May be:
> 
> (({obj.foo.bar.baz = .to_i }))
> (({obi.foo[bar.baz] = .to_s(16) }))
> 
> While this not consistent with ||= , it looks readable, imho.

It's different from ||= etc, so it should not consistent with them.

Rather,

  obj.foo.bar.baz += .to_i
  obi.foo[bar.baz] *= .to_s(16)

might be useful.

-- 
Nobu Nakada