From: Curt Sampson <cjs@...>
Date: 2008-01-24T08:02:45+09:00
Subject: Re: why must I initialize this variable?

On 2008-01-23 02:40 +0900 (Wed), matt neuburg wrote:

> puts "#{result}" if (result = h[k])
> 
> ...I get an error...
> Another way of understanding my confusion is to notice that this *does*
> work:
> 
> if (result = h[k]) then puts "#{result}" end

This is just one of those little annoyances in Ruby. You'll
find things like this all over the place.

You may or may not get used to it. I never have, but I live with it
while waiting for the perfect language to come along.

cjs
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