[ruby-core:110125] [Ruby master Feature#19027] .= syntax

["mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <noreply@ruby-lang.org>]

Issue #19027 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Status changed from Open to Rejected

If I remember correctly, this has been proposed several times. I found one ticket #6841, so I'll close this as a duplicate.

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Feature #19027: .= syntax
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19027#change-99383

* Author: jeromedalbert (Jerome Dalbert)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
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I wish I could do this in Ruby:

```
records .= where.not(id: excluded_ids) if some_condition
```

instead of:

```
records = records.where.not(id: excluded_ids) if some_condition
```

We already have `+=`, `-=`, `||=`, etc, so why not have a `.=` syntax?

I rarely need this since most of the time self replacement methods like `gsub!` are available. Over my many years of Ruby programming I wished I could use a `.=` syntax maybe a handful of times, so this would be a rarely useful feature, but I find it to be quite elegant in the rare cases it could be needed.

Maybe this is just me being weird but I thought I would share.



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