diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3c5ca3a7af..7c76d34ef7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Mar 08 11:30:59 2003  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
+
+	* eval.c (massign): fix a bug not to expand in assigment to sole
+	  lhs.  [ruby-dev:19766]
+
 Fri Mar  7 21:57:25 2003  Tanaka Akira  <akr@m17n.org>
 
         * lib/pp.rb (Kernel.pp): module function.
diff --git a/eval.c b/eval.c
index 7dbc4d7ab8..0a0eb12f02 100644
--- a/eval.c
+++ b/eval.c
@@ -4029,7 +4029,7 @@ massign(self, node, val, pcall)
 
     len = RARRAY(val)->len;
     list = node->nd_head;
-    if (len == 1 && list && (list->nd_next || node->nd_args)) {
+    if (len == 1 && list && (!pcall || list->nd_next || node->nd_args)) {
 	VALUE v = RARRAY(val)->ptr[0];
 	tmp = rb_check_array_type(v);