How can I create a list of reserved words in a Ruby program? [closed]

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I know that I can just browse the web for these words but is there a way to just let Ruby do it for me? You don't have to give me a whole program, just some hints to let me go about it. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well, you can always take a look at the ruby's source code: keywords.

Answer 2

You can't get Ruby to do this for you.

However, here's the list from Dave Thomas's Programming Ruby 1.9, The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Also known as the Pickaxe):

__FILE__, __LINE__, BEGIN, END, alias, and, begin, break, case, class, def, defined?, do, else, elsif, end, ensure, false, for, if, in module, next, nil, not, or, redo, rescue, retry, return, self, super, then, true, undef, unless, until, when, while, yield