Re:Ruby 3.4 Highlights
by jshmrsn on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @10:27AM
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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
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This goes at least as far back as anaphoric macros: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro.