From: murphy <murphy@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T22:29:43+09:00
Subject: Re: What happened to h = {1,2,3,4,5,6} in 1.9?

David A. Black wrote:
>   h = {1,2,3,4,5,6}
> 
> raise an error in Ruby 1.9. It's such a nice, quick way to write a
> hash. Is it really disappearing?
I guess because it's counter-intuitive, error-prone, hard to read/debug,
and thus, rarely used? I don't know where it came from (Perl? ;) but do
we really need it?

we have {a:1, b:2, c:3} now for symbol keys...which seems much more
useful to me.

maybe it was here:
> Fri Jun 29 14:51:24 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
> 
> 	* parse.y (assoc_list): remove expanded hash literal (no splat).

however, you can still use

  Hash[1,2,3,4,5,6]

[murphy]