From: "shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)" <shevegen@...>
Date: 2013-12-30T05:11:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:59387] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9319] Add constant	RUBY_KEYWORDS or a similar way to output which keywords exist	at runtime


Issue #9319 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


Oops, I meant "IRC", not "IRB", but yeah from within running IRB it would be also nice of course. :)
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Feature #9319: Add constant RUBY_KEYWORDS or a similar way to output which keywords exist at runtime
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9319#change-43951

Author: shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: current: 2.2.0


Hi,

Would it be possible to list all keywords in Ruby, from within a running program?

Like RUBY_KEYWORDS or similar?

Reasoning: On IRB someone asked me if "in" is a keyword. I was not sure so I googled
because I could not remember right off the head (I later remembered that "in" must
be because it is used in a "for" loop).

It would be nice if we could ask ruby itself which keywords would be available,
i.e. stored in an array.

http://ruby-doc.org/docs/keywords/1.9/ has a nice description of all keywords
too, which is great.


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