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author | hsbt <hsbt@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2017-10-21 15:19:45 +0000 |
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committer | hsbt <hsbt@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2017-10-21 15:19:45 +0000 |
commit | 86f1d9b705e460960ea97b6d0084a07cb05e4023 (patch) | |
tree | 68dbd222e664238d8b16e69a9a264547860b7c94 /doc | |
parent | 2476bf2bb15f1b84363d9400c4994702ba3b59cf (diff) |
Clarify return value for assignment methods.
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1682
Patch by @sos4nt [fix GH-1682]
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@60295 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/syntax/methods.rdoc | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc b/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc index bdc555b131..eff38c3410 100644 --- a/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc +++ b/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ evaluated. 1 + 1 # this expression is never evaluated end -Note that for assignment methods the return value will always be ignored. +Note that for assignment methods the return value will be ignored when using the assignment syntax. Instead, the argument will be returned: def a=(value) @@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ Instead, the argument will be returned: end p(a = 5) # prints 5 + +The actual return value will be returned when invoking the method directly: + + p send(:a=, 5) # prints 6 == Scope |