From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T16:49:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Listing Ruby keywords

On 1/2/06, George Ogata <g_ogata@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> John Maclean <info@jayeola.org> writes:
>
> > Is there a simple way to find out all or most of the built-in
> > keywords? I know that if a keyword's in a ruby script that the
> > debugger will tell you but I'd like to know before hand, in other
> > words when I'm actually writing the scripts.
>
> Can't use an editor with syntax coloring?  ;-)
>
> The emacs ruby-mode colors these as keywords:
>
>                "alias"
>                "and"
>                "begin"
>                "break"
>                "case"
>                "catch"
>                "class"
>                "def"
>                "do"
>                "elsif"
>                "else"
>                "fail"
>                "ensure"
>                "for"
>                "end"
>                "if"
>                "in"
>                "module"
>                "next"
>                "not"
>                "or"
>                "raise"
>                "redo"
>                "rescue"
>                "retry"
>                "return"
>                "then"
>                "throw"
>                "super"
>                "unless"
>                "undef"
>                "until"
>                "when"
>                "while"
>                "yield"
>
> And these as special variables:
>
>   nil, self, true, false, __FILE__, __LINE__
>
> Aside from that I can only think of:
>
>   BEGIN, END, defined?
>
> You could also try searching the list archives.
>
> HTH.

Or you could make a script that tries to assign to local variables
with every possible name combination, and keeps track of which ones
throw exceptions. ;)