From: Markus Fischer Date: 2012-02-08T03:17:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Using _ like in Scala? You've already got a lot of responses, on top of my head these are the two most relevant tickets which have been opened so far: Provide Default Variables for Array#each and other iterators http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4830 and default variable name for parameter http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4475 HTH