From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2009-02-10T18:11:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21947] Re: New hash : syntax for the 1.8 series?

Excerpts from Brent Roman's message of Tue Feb 10 09:30:55 +0200 2009:
> 
> I always liked the new hash symbol key colon syntax introduced in 1.9
> 
> h = {dog: "bark", cat: "meow", horse: "neigh", programmer: "z z z"}
> 
> It's especially nice in method invocations:
> 
> animal.noises dog: "bark", cat: "meow", horse: "neigh"
> 
> Is anyone working working on porting this back to 1.8?
> Anyone else interested in this?

I know the version boundary is not absolute, but I would very much
like to try to keep as much of significant language- and syntax
changes as possible in 1.9.

But, more importantly, why not just use 1.9? The faster everyone
migrates, the better. If there are any deficiencies in 1.9, your
(and others') energies would be better spent there than trying
to backport changes into 1.8.


Eero

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