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New Lint/SelfAssignment cop #8291

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fatkodima opened this issue Jul 9, 2020 · 0 comments · Fixed by #8387
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New Lint/SelfAssignment cop #8291

fatkodima opened this issue Jul 9, 2020 · 0 comments · Fixed by #8387

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fatkodima commented Jul 9, 2020

Self assignments have no effect, so probably those are a copy-parse error, missed self for properties or due to incomplete refactoring.

class User
  def fullname=(value)
    name, surname = value.split
    name = name # forgot to use `self`
    self.surname = surname
  end
end

x = x
[a, b] = [a, b]

There is already a Lint/UselessAssignment cop which checks for unused variables after assignment. That cop is a little difficult, as I can say, to extend with this and created with a little different purpose. So I'm proposing creating a new Lint/SelfAssignment cop to handle described use cases. Wdyt?

Inspired by https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-self-assign and https://spotbugs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bugDescriptions.html#sa-self-assignment-of-field-sa-field-self-assignment and http://errorprone.info/bugpattern/SelfAssignment

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