From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-08-27T01:21:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ||= with 1.8 and 1.9 ?

>> In ruby 1.8, an attribute writer method (:foo=) always(*) returns the 
>> value of its argument, rather than the last value calculated in the 
>> method, so that you can tell by inspection that
>> 
>>    a = foo.bar = 123
>> 
>> will set a to 123. Perhaps it has been decided to change that for 1.9.
>> 
> 
> If so, then David Black didn't know about it:
> 

Whoops.  I didn't see the change from = to ||= in the code.  So nothing
has changed from 1.8.6 to 1.9.1 with respect to = methods.  The change
is in the behavior of ||=.    Those quotes from the Well
Grounded Rubyist don't apply to ||=.
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