From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T12:27:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Riddle me this (a question about expressions)

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On 2006.09.27 11:18, Devin Mullins wrote:
> Funnily enough, despite having blogged it two weeks ago, I failed to=20
> mention that you can hack around the "void value expression" problem:

You can get around it, yes, but should not. A return
simply is a different kind of beast an the kind of
code that spawned this thread is nonsensical. Why
would one assign the result of an expression that
can never complete (nor do anything useful with
the assignment).

> def foo
>   $a =3D (return 7; 5)
> end

  def foo
    $a =3D nil
    7
  end

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