From: Stephen Sykes Date: 2011-08-16T18:39:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:38976] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4801] Shorthand Hash Syntax for Strings For info, look at http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/9251 and the surrounding thread. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote: > > Second, that proposal, "Symbol as a subclass of String", is an > abolished feature. �Though I can't remember the reason now, > there should be the rationale to thrown it away. �You need to > disprove it to make your proposal accepted. > > -- > Nobu Nakada > >