Bug #17190: Not working multiple assignment by rightward assignment statement

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 3.0.0preview1 (2020-09-25 master 0096d2b895) [x86_64-darwin19]
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN

[yancya (Shinta Koyanagi)]

For example. It is foo.rb

42, 42 => a, b
p a
p b

I expected it.

42
42

But, Real result.

hoge.rb:1: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting end-of-input
42, 42 => a, b

Is this intentional?

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

You need parens.

[42, 42] => a, b

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed