From: Tyler Benster <redmine@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T12:06:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34322] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#4259][Open] Symbol syntactic sugar in Hashes does not work with quotes

Bug #4259: Symbol syntactic sugar in Hashes does not work with quotes
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4259

Author: Tyler Benster
Status: Open, Priority: Low
Target version: 1.9.2
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]

To reproduce the problem, try the following in irb:

>> hash = {Alabama: "AL"}
=> {:Alabama=>"AL"}
>> puts hash[:"Alabama"]
AL
=> nil
>> hash2 = {"Rhode Island": "RI"}
SyntaxError: (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting tASSOC
hash2 = {"Rhode Island": "RI"}
                        ^
(irb):3: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting $end
	from /usr/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>> hash2 = {:"Rhode Island" => "RI"}
=> {:"Rhode Island"=>"RI"}


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