If you don't want to use the walrus operator," don't use the !@<a href=""http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23ing"">#ing</a> walrus operator.<br>I wish Ruby had a walrus operator.",(reply>), It's not as simple as if you don't want to use it don't use it. It makes the code harder to read and is unnecessary. The people that don't like the feature won't use it clearly, but they will inevitably have to read other people's code that use it....,(reply>), Assignment is already an expression that evaluates to the value of the assignment in ruby tho... almost everything in ruby is an expression except for return statements and maybe one or two other keywords.