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Re:Ruby adds experimental support for Rightward assignments by syspec on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:51AM (#24375415)
Is there a place we can voice our concerns over this move.

I was just teaching Ruby to someone learning to code. I have to admit because all popular languages use leftward assignment it was one less thing to teach.

=> is pretty loaded as it is

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Re:Ruby adds experimental support for Rightward assignments by baash05 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @07:51AM (#24382922)
Agreed. And it doesn't really improve anything. The argument that it makes code easier to read is bogus. Perhaps for people who only work in ruby. I suspect rubo-cop would have a rule against this a week after it was added.
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