From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T02:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Compound Parallel Operators

Brian Mitchell wrote:
> var = :red
> var, var[:ruby] = {}, var

Ouch...my brain hurts. I really would have expected that to fail
(trying to call :red#[]).

Is that* a guaranteed feature of compound assignment (per some notional
Ruby spec that we don't have), or is that a by-product of the current
implementation?

(* Specifically that the R1->L1 assignment happens before the second
assignment is evaluated.)