From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-06T16:28:03+09:00
Subject: Re: value of assignment (Re: Order of the value of an expression changed? (PR#579))

Hi,

In message "Re: value of assignment (Re: Order of the value of an expression changed? (PR#579))"
    on 03/02/06, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:

|I have read the thread and I think this is a pretty bad change.  I
|can't find an instance where this would be the desired result.  When
|every other expression in Ruby evaluates from right to left, why do
|assignment statements always have a value of the right most value?

That's how assignment works.  I just made it consistent for attribute
access too.

							matz.