From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2011-06-06T00:19:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36762] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4830][Open] Provide Default Variables for Array#each and other iterators

Hi,

At Sun, 5 Jun 2011 17:23:26 +0900,
Lazaridis Ilias wrote in [ruby-core:36750]:
> for arrays: use "item" by default
> for hashes: use "key" and "value" by default

Why different names?

There is no way to tell what class the receiver is to the
parser.  Your proposal needs very big change under the hood.

-- 
Nobu Nakada