From: "nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)" Date: 2013-06-23T22:37:05+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:55603] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8563] Instance variable arguments Issue #8563 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada). phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin) wrote: > Question: would this be valid? > > def foo(@foo=@foo) end In generic, foo = foo is valid always. ---------------------------------------- Feature #8563: Instance variable arguments https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8563#change-40092 Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: syntax Target version: Next Major =begin Often times, people want to assign given arguments to instance variables, especially inside the method `initialize`: def initialize foo, bar, buz @foo, @bar, @buz = foo, bar, buz ... end I propose to let method definition take instance variables as arguments so that: def initialize @foo, @bar, @buz ... end would be equivalent as above. =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/