Reserved Words/Keywords in Ruby
There are certain words that are reserved for doing specific tasks. These words are known as keywords
and they have standard, predefined meaning in Ruby
.
Some of the keywords
available in Ruby
are given below:
BEGIN | END | alias | and | begin | break | case | class | def |
module | next | nil | not | or | redo | rescue | retry | return |
elsif | end | false | ensure | for | if | true | undef | unless |
do | else | super | then | until | when | while | defined? | self |
These keywords
cannot be used for naming variables or constants in Ruby
.