diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1115b50737..dc679924bc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Apr 16 08:59:50 2002  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nakada@nifty.ne.jp>
+
+	* eval.c (assign): convert mrhs to mvalue.
+
 Mon Apr 15 09:27:31 2002  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* pack.c (pack_unpack): should treat 'U' in character unit, not in
diff --git a/eval.c b/eval.c
index 0e8b5cc0bd..4bee61cd81 100644
--- a/eval.c
+++ b/eval.c
@@ -3946,7 +3946,7 @@ assign(self, lhs, val, pcall)
 	break;
 
       case NODE_MASGN:
-	massign(self, lhs, val, pcall);
+	massign(self, lhs, svalue_to_mvalue(val), pcall);
 	break;
 
       case NODE_CALL:
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index da041c07e9..974235da6b 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "1.7.2"
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2002-04-15"
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2002-04-16"
 #define RUBY_VERSION_CODE 172
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20020415
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20020416