[ruby-core:105030] [Ruby master Feature#18124] Hash shorthands (matching constructors functionality in JS)

Issue #18124 has been updated by myxoh (Nicolas Klein).


osyo (manga osyo) wrote in #note-7:
> mame (Yusuke Endoh) wrote in #note-3:
> > For "Destructuring", you can use one-line pattern matching since Ruby 3.0:
> > 
> > ```
> > hash = {a: 'a', b: 'b'}
> > hash => { a:, b: }
> > p hash[:a] #=> "a"
> > ```
> > 
> > For "Constructor", it is a long-running topic: #14579, #17292, and maybe other tickets I cannot remember. But as far as I recall, no one proposed this particular syntax `%C{ }`.
> 
> I think it's similar to this.
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14973

Yes, fair find! If google translate is translating correctly it seems the exact same specification.
Sorry, should have done a better job searching for it!

Should I close this issue then?

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Feature #18124: Hash shorthands (matching constructors functionality in JS)
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18124#change-93439

* Author: myxoh (Nicolas Klein)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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# **Suggestion:**
To implement one shorthand operators that allows you to construct hash into local variables and construct local variables into a hash.

# **Context:**
Javascript and other languages have a similar feature. It's helpful, and I don't think there's anything stopping Ruby for supporting it.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment
Ruby also supports destructuring from an array.

# **Syntax:**
### Constructor:
The constructor shorthand would allow you to create a hash where the symbol key has the same name as the variable.

For example:

```ruby
local_number = 1 
user = OStruct.new(name: 'john')
hash = %C{ local_var user }
```

would be equivalent to:
```ruby
local_number = 1 
user =  OStruct.new(name: 'john')
hash = { local_number: local_number, user: user }
```

The new syntax is based on ruby's existing literal constructors syntax.

EDIT:
Edited to remove a reference to the destructuring, which is already implemented on Ruby 3





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