From bfce381eb7e4f7140c99b2ce5fd05fbb9452bebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zzak Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 06:16:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * doc/syntax/assignment.rdoc: [DOC] Fix assignment directions [ci skip] By @idupree [Fixes GH-555] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/555 git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@45277 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/syntax/assignment.rdoc | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9ae68bfc5f..427ba918b5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Thu Mar 6 15:15:24 2014 Zachary Scott + + * doc/syntax/assignment.rdoc: [DOC] Fix assignment directions + By @idupree [Fixes GH-555] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/555 + Thu Mar 6 15:07:18 2014 Zachary Scott * doc/syntax/methods.rdoc: [DOC] Fix example for block arguments diff --git a/doc/syntax/assignment.rdoc b/doc/syntax/assignment.rdoc index 7424d4885f..79fe680f3b 100644 --- a/doc/syntax/assignment.rdoc +++ b/doc/syntax/assignment.rdoc @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ assigning. This is similar to multiple assignment: p a # prints [1, 2, 3] -You can splat anywhere in the left-hand side of the assignment: +You can splat anywhere in the right-hand side of the assignment: a = 1, *[2, 3] @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ You can splat anywhere in the left-hand side of the assignment: == Multiple Assignment -You can assign multiple values on the left-hand side to multiple variables: +You can assign multiple values on the right-hand side to multiple variables: a, b = 1, 2 @@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ You can use multiple assignment to swap two values in-place: p new_value: new_value, old_value: old_value # prints {:new_value=>1, :old_value=>2} -If you have more values on the left hand side of the assignment than variables -on the right hand side the extra values are ignored: +If you have more values on the right hand side of the assignment than variables +on the left hand side the extra values are ignored: a, b = 1, 2, 3 @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ the assignment. p a: a, b: b # prints {:a=>1, :b=>[2, 3]} -The * can appear anywhere on the right-hand side: +The * can appear anywhere on the left-hand side: *a, b = 1, 2, 3