From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T09:03:02+09:00
Subject: Re: result of assignment is not the return value

Hi,

In message "Re: result of assignment is not the return value"
    on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:55:25 +0900, Nathan Beyer <nbeyer@gmail.com> writes:

|Shouldn't the result of the 'value=' method be the return value?

It's a design choice.  We defined the value of the assignment as the
value of the right hand expression, not the return value from the
assigning method.

							matz.