Ruby 3.4 Highlights

Re:Ruby 3.4 Highlights by anonnon on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @10:18AM (#42566500)

> In Ruby 3.4, it has been added as a default name for the first parameter passed to a block. Rather than specifying a name in trivial cases like the one above, you can now write:

> [

> "beige chinos",

> "blue jorts",

> "rainbow jorts",

> ].filter { it =~ /jorts/ }

> # => ["blue jorts", "rainbow jorts"]

This reminds me of Perl's $_ (which in Ruby is last line read from STDIN).

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Re:Ruby 3.4 Highlights by jshmrsn on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @10:27AM (#42566566)

I am familiar with ‘it’ as a default closure input from Kotlin. From a quick search, that in turns seems to be inspired by Groovy.

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Re:Ruby 3.4 Highlights by alex_muscar on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @01:59PM (#42568225)

This goes at least as far back as anaphoric macros: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro.

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Re:Ruby 3.4 Highlights by inopinatus on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:03PM (#42570035)

shame about that example, since

    ary.grep /(j|sh)orts/

already exists, and therefore sells the standard library short. try this:

    terms = %w(foo? bar q**x)
    Regexp.new "\\b(#{terms.map { Regexp.escape it }.join ?|})\\b"

    #=> /\b(foo\?|bar|q\*\*x)\b/

and observe that it's at the margins of instant comprehension where syntax shorthands like "it" add value.

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