Issue #6224 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas). Exactly. Actually I didn't know about 1141, but I've read about 4965 recently. ---------------------------------------- Feature #6224: Make variables in if/unless conditions available to conditional statements https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6224#change-25393 Author: gcao (Guoliang Cao) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: I propose to make below code work do_something(a) if a = condition Above code should work exactly same as if a = condition do_something(a) end If there is a reason behind why the first case does not work, please let me know. Thank you. Guoliang Cao -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/