From: Tom Armitage <tom.armitage@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T18:10:27+09:00
Subject: Re: || explanation in ruby... in pseudolanguage

> Anyway, if it helps, I tend to think of the |var| notation as "with", e.g.
>
> some_list.each do |item| ... end
>
> becomes (at least in my head) some_list each do with item ...

Interesting - I tend to think of it as "as", which doesn't
transliterate as well, but indicates that the object inside the pipes
is temporary; it's just a name we're giving the iterated objects.