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Feature #1141

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assignment of variable in "right" if statement fails

Added by hagus (Luke Burton) about 15 years ago. Updated almost 13 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:21967]

Description

=begin
In Ruby 1.8

p(x) if x=42
(irb):1: warning: found = in conditional, should be ==
NameError: undefined local variable or method `x' for main:Object
from (irb):1

In Ruby 1.9

$ irb19
irb(main):001:0> p (x) if (x=42)
NameError: undefined local variable or method x' for main:Object from (irb):1 from /usr/local/bin/irb19:12:in '

However, if you move the if statement to the line before, naturally everything works.

Should variable assignment in "right" if clauses be permitted? I think so, since it allows you to be fairly concise and not have to do:

if x = 42
p(x)
end

"Right" if clauses are permitted because they read naturally, I assume. I'm not sure whether people regard variable assignment in this case as reading very "naturally", but there is at the very least a lack of consistency between this type of if clause, and the more regular type of if clause.
=end


Related issues 4 (0 open4 closed)

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Actions #1

Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) about 15 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

=begin
local variable scope determined up to down, left to right. So a local variable first assigned in the condition of if modifier is not effective in the left side if body. It's a spec.

=end

Actions #2

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) almost 7 years ago

  • Related to Bug #13543: local variable declaration added
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