From: rubyrus <scriptfan@...>
Date: 2006-02-28T07:48:35+09:00
Subject: Is this Ruby warning making sense???

Does anyone think if this the warning makes any sense?

irb(main):002:0> puts "abc" if (a=true)
(irb):2: warning: found = in conditional, should be ==
abc


I thought in ruby, everything is an expression, so a=true should return
true, and
if (true) is totally valid.  Why does it give the warning?

Or is this a language design thing?