From: Warren Brown <warrenbrown@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T00:09:00+09:00
Subject: Re: semenatics of if/unless/while statement modifiers

Stefan,

> So Ruby can't know whether occurence of an equal sign
> inside an "if" condition is a programmers intention or
> not, unless the LHS of the assignment is a constant
> expression.

    I think the point that you're missing here is that Ruby only spits
out the warning if the *RHS* of the assignment is a constant, which
changes the "if" to an unconditional branch (i.e. an "always" :o).

    If you can come up with an instance where an assignment inside an
"if" statement spits out a warning but the branch is still undecided at
compile time, then you would have a good argument for removing the
warning.

    - Warren Brown