Cool stuff, but I miss the "it" variable from HyperTalk (the language used by HyperCard) which contained the result of prompts to the user. Just search for "The

Cool stuff, but I miss the "it" variable from HyperTalk (the language used by HyperCard) which contained the result of prompts to the user. Just search for "The it variable": http://www.jaedworks.com/hypercard/HT-Masters/scripting.html http://www.jaedworks.com/hypercard/HT-Masters/scripting.html ask "How many minutes do you want to play?" put it * 60 into timeToPlay -- convert it into seconds Today we could have a reserved keyword that holds the result of the last statement executed. A practical example adapted from the article using "it" might look like: Object.keys(envars) it.map(envar => `${envar}=${envars[envar]}`) it.join(' ') `$ ${it}` chalk.dim(it, 'node', args.join(' ')) console.log(it); A better name for "it" today might be "_", "result" or perhaps '$' in a shell-inspired language like php. Most shells support "$?" so that could work too: # prints 0 true ; echo $? # prints 1 false ; echo $?