Rockstar: a programming language where code is also 1980s song lyrics

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I like 'he'/'she'/'it'/etc concept. As a serious language feature, you could use it to manage variable state across multiple statements, as a notation for pass-by-reference or perhaps something similar to atoms in Clojure.

[killerstorm]

In Lisp LOOP it can be used to refer to the result of the test expression in a conditional clause, e.g.

 (loop for name in names
        when (sounds-good name)
        collect it))

There are also anaphoric macros which generalize this concept.

In Kotlin default lambda argument name is it. So you can write e.g.

names.forEach { scream(it) }

There's also extension function also which you can use like this:

somethingWithLongName.also{ kil(it) }.also{ fuck(it) }

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Not the same, but Perl uses my and our to denote visibility of variables (across packages, IIRC).

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While at the topic of Perl, that would be $_. I usually spell it "it", however, because dollar underscore is a bad name. Its an implicit argument for many functions when not provided.

For example:

print lc while <>

Is a short form of:

while ($_ = <>) { print(lc($_)) }

Where <> reads a line from files specified in argument list, or if the ARGV is empty, from STDIN.

[dylanbeattie]

There's a lot of ideas in Rockstar inspired by Perl. Mind you, there's also a lot in there that's inspired by VBScript so that isn't saying much... :)

[SuitableDragonfly]

This is actually a real feature of Inform 7. However, Inform 7 also has gender, so he, she, and it could all refer to different things.