Do not omit parentheses for calls in assignments in conditional branches #10982
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Parentheses are required in assignments that call methods in conditional branches. Removing them is a syntax error and the
Style/MethodCallWithArgsParentheses
cop with the style ofomit_parentheses
has been doing just that during autocorrection.Here is an example that needs the parentheses but is improperly autocorrected:
Removing them, as the autocorrection does, is a syntax error:
Such is the case for any assignment or shorthand assignment in any Ruby conditional.