ng-repeat variable scope to the DOM block - angularjs

Question

Am I dreaming or I really saw that somewhere, but I can't remember the exact syntax. So if I have
var fooObjects = [{ name:"John", age:15 },
{ name: "Michael", age:26 },
...etc...]
and
<div ng-repeat="for foo in fooObjects"> <-- note, this isn't real syntax
{{name}} <-- Now you don't have to explicitly call `foo.name`
{{age}} inside of this div block
</div>

Answer 1

An example from https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngRepeat. Try something like this:
<div ng-init="friends = [
{name:'John', age:25, gender:'boy'},
{name:'Jessie', age:30, gender:'girl'},
{name:'Johanna', age:28, gender:'girl'},
{name:'Joy', age:15, gender:'girl'},
{name:'Mary', age:28, gender:'girl'},
{name:'Peter', age:95, gender:'boy'},
{name:'Sebastian', age:50, gender:'boy'},
{name:'Erika', age:27, gender:'girl'},
{name:'Patrick', age:40, gender:'boy'},
{name:'Samantha', age:60, gender:'girl'}
]">
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="friend in friends">
{{friend.name}} who is {{friend.age}} years old.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Here's a plunker with the example http://plnkr.co/edit/I19oBk20T5ldLZe7GYqN?p=preview
--edit--
I misunderstood your earlier question. You could go about aliasing the variable in the ng-repeat by implementing the following in your controller:
$scope.scopify(scope, object) {
for (var o in object) {
scope[o] = object[o];
}
}
Used like the following:
<li ng-repeat="friend in friends" ng-init="scopify(this, friend)">
{{name}}, {{age}}, {{gender}}
</li>
Here is a plunker with a working example: http://plnkr.co/edit/Y8c4uOagcdM5cXN81TET?p=preview
In addition to the above example, you can create aliases for any of the properties of an object through the ng-init directive. For example, another possible solution could be this:
<li ng-repeat="friend in friends"
ng-init="name = friend.name; age = friend.age; gender = friend.gender">
{{name}}, {{age}}, {{gender}}
</li>
We can use ng-init to create aliases that we can reference in that html block. While this is not very useful if you are only going to reference each property once, it might come in handy if you have to repeat the same property multiple times within a block of html.