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Re:"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby by zverok on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:33AM (#37854788)
Ruby didn't always had both. `reduce` as an alias for `inject` was introduced in Ruby 1.8.7; `filter` as late as in Ruby 2.6 (just a few years ago, and most of the codebases I saw are still preferring `select`).

Yes, the dictionary is normalized in the last years towards what became industry/mainstream standard names for the concepts, but the statement that initial names were derived from Smalltalk is correct.

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