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		tehwalrus on June 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Early vs. Beginning Coders Neither does ruby. (Which is really really confusing if you spend your days in python, and occasionally have to edit something in ruby.)

rhinoceraptor on June 17, 2015 [–]

It's even more confusing if you have to figure out if you're calling a method or referencing a variable.

The code could be assigning a new variable from a method return value, or just from an existing variable.

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