RubyConf 2021 - Vertical Assignment in Ruby by Kevin Kuchta

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Published on August 9, 2022 6:35:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nBB70uy6M

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Ruby's long had leftward assignment (x = 3) and recently got rightward assignment (3 = or greater x). The problem here is obvious: we need a vertical assignment operator. In a complete abdication of good taste and common sense, this talk will walk through correcting this heinous oversight. We'll abuse otherwise-respectable metaprogramming tools like Ripper and TracePoint to add a fully functional vequals operator. While this talk is almost 100% bad-ideas-by-volume, you'll learn a few tricks that you can use in your day-to-day work (or at least to terrify your co-workers).

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