Feature #8938: it keyword

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[Sing9898 (Sing Lou)]

automatic 'it' keyword for block variable:

items.each{|x| puts x.name }
=>
items.each{puts it.name}

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

I'm sure that this is a duplicate, but it is hard to search.

[headius (Charles Nutter)]

There are two others.

The oldest is here: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4475

The most active is here: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4830

I believe the primary objections are that it would require "it" to be a keyword (or at least a really special word) and it may interfere with a user using "it" as a variable or method name.

I'm not a fan of magic globals, either, and even though it doesn't start with $ this feels like the same sort of thing.

[Hanmac (Hans Mackowiak)]

i think the main problem is that some iterators react differently when the block has different block parameters ... with this it does not work so nice

[headius (Charles Nutter)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

I'm not familiar with bug process here so let me know if I'm overstepping here. Since there's at least one other bug asking for exactly the same thing, I'm closing this as a duplicate.