From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T07:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question about assigments

Le 25 juillet 2006 � 09:34, nobu@ruby-lang.org a �crit :

> Hi,
> 
> At Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:20:05 +0900,
> F. Senault wrote in [ruby-talk:203659]:
>> Mind you, in some languages (well, at least - don't shoot ! - Visual
>> Basic), it allows to type (the equivalent of) blah.something(10) = 5
>> (first argument is the value assigned, the others passed in the
>> partenthesis).
> 
> It's tough for ruby parser.

Sure, ruby already has plenty of constructs for this purpose.  I was
just pointing a possible origin of the idiom.

Fred
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