Feature #9319
closedAdd constant RUBY_KEYWORDS or a similar way to output which keywords exist at runtime
Description
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.
Updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler) over 10 years ago
Oops, I meant "IRC", not "IRB", but yeah from within running IRB it would be also nice of course. :)
Updated by zzak (zzak _) over 10 years ago
Thanks for the report, I can put something together for this soon
Updated by zzak (zzak _) over 10 years ago
- Category set to doc
- Status changed from Open to Assigned
- Assignee set to zzak (zzak _)
- Priority changed from 3 to Normal
Updated by zzak (zzak _) over 10 years ago
I created the following file, but I'm not sure if we should add anything else. https://gist.github.com/zzak/8187842
The old 1.9 file which converted these keywords to methods and added expanded documentation for each one is nice. I'm not sure it helps us or won't just confuse people.
Basically I think we should just make this a file under ./doc and you can access it from irb or ri, as well as it being available in the api documentation.
Updated by zzak (zzak _) about 10 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Closed
We've added an rdoc file to the source tree that lists the current keywords of ruby, you can access it a couple of ways, such as:
$ ri ruby:keywords
or from irb:
help "ruby:keywords"