From: Magnus Holm <judofyr@...>
Date: 2011-06-05T19:03:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36754] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4830][Open] Provide Default Variables for Array#each and other iterators

What happens in this case?

  item = 1
  [1, 2, 3].each { print item }

// Magnus Holm

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:23, Lazaridis Ilias <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
>
> Issue #4830 has been reported by Lazaridis Ilias.
>
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> Feature #4830: Provide Default Variables for Array#each and other iterators
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4830
>
> Author: Lazaridis Ilias
> Status: Open
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee:
> Category: core
> Target version:
>
>
> for arrays: use "item" by default
> for hashes: use "key" and "value" by default
>
> names = ["Jane", "Michele", "Isabella"]
> names.each { |name| print name, "\n" }
> names.each { print item, "\n" }
>
> contact = {name:"Jane", phone:"1234567"}
> contact.each { |key, value| print key, ": ", value, "\n"}
> contact.each { print key, ": ", value, "\n"}
>
> -
>
> The benefits are:
>
> * more compact code (without loosing clarity of the code).
> * no repetitions ("names, name, name") in a one-liner with {} block
>
> This extension does not break any existent behaviour.
>
>
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> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org
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>