From: Nathan Beyer <nbeyer@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T12:39:07+09:00
Subject: Re: result of assignment is not the return value

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 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.

Ahh. Thanks. I figured it was something like that, but I couldn't find
any concrete reference to it.

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