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Re:Ruby adds experimental support for Rightward assignments by sixstringtheory on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:31AM (#24372620)
As you read through code you can come across a huge switch and not know why until you look to the end. Now you’re reading bottom-up, which is just as unnatural as right-to-left for english speakers.

Not necessarily more complex, but not less complex either IMO. I often say complexity can’t be eliminated, only spread around differently; I think we’re seeing that here.

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Re:Ruby adds experimental support for Rightward assignments by satisfaction on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:50PM (#24384958)
I think it would be possible to think of this in terms of complexity theory, for N case statements to you would possibly have to check 2N locations for assignment. I wonder if you could do parallel assignment: var1 = case = var2
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