From: nobu@...
Date: 2017-03-14T06:50:47+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:80152] [Ruby trunk Feature#13314] dig=

Issue #13314 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).


Assignment to method call has been a challenge in the last couple of years, but not possible yet, 

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Feature #13314: dig=
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13314#change-63586

* Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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We have `Hash#dig`, and when we want to assign a key-value at a deep level, it is tempting to do:

```ruby
hash.dig(:key1, :key2, :key3, :key4) = "value
```

when we actually needed to do:

```ruby
hash.dig(:key1, :key2, :key3)&.[]=(:key4, "value")
```

I propose a method `Hash#dig=`, which should be equivalent to the following:

```
class Hash
  def dig=(*keys, final_key, value)
    dig(*keys)&.[](final_key, value)
  end
end
```




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