From: Michael Edgar <adgar@...>
Date: 2011-05-30T21:05:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36581] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4801][Open] Shorthand Hash Syntax for Strings

Since :"#{abc}" is allowed in Ruby, I imagine that any such substitute syntax would preserve that property.

I disagree strongly that Hash, the base class, should special-case the behaviors
of Strings and Symbols to be equal. It's a hash table, like those encountered in any other language,
and shouldn't behave unlike typical hash tables. Namely h[a] and h[b] look up the same
value iff a == b (or a.eql?(b), or whichever equality test you use). Strings and symbols
are never equal.

Michael Edgar
adgar@carboni.ca
http://carboni.ca/

On May 30, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:

> abc = 'cba'
> {"#{abc}": 'some text'} == {:'cba' => 'some text'}