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A comment on Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go. Parent comment

Re:Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go by Dewie on Saturday July 26, 2014 @05:34PM (#8090877)
Some languages have a sort-of default variable name for cases like this, namely "it":

> put 1 2 3 4 5 | filter > $it 2 | map * 2 $it

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Re:Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go by JadeNB on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:18PM (#8093318)
As zokier was presumably pointing out, other languages have a different sort-of-default variable name, namely `$_` (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DollarUnderscore). :-)
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